Plan your ElevenLabs NSO exercise
Calculator · free · no signup · pre-IPOElevenLabs is pre-IPO. Plan your NSO exercise tax (federal, state, FICA) at any expected valuation.
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Your grant
Seeded from secondary-market data, as of Jun 9, 2026
Tax inputs
Hold strategy
Best after-tax payout — at year 1
$199,107
Sell + invest wins by $20,808 over Hold 1 yr.
Estimates only. Not financial advice.
Sell + invest
Best payout| Bargain element (sale − strike) | $350,050 |
| Federal | |
| State | |
| Medicare | −$5,076 |
| Additional Medicare | −$3,150 |
| Market gain over 1 yr at 10.0% | $18,575 |
| LTCG on diversified gain (fed + state + NIIT) | −$5,220 |
| Net at year 1 | $199,107 |
Sell every share immediately; invest the after-tax cash at the market return for 1 yr, then liquidate. Diversified — no single-stock concentration risk.
Exercise + hold 1 yr
| Sale proceeds (year 1) | |
| LTCG tax (federal + state + NIIT) | $0 |
| Net at year 1 | $178,300 |
Sold 2,678 shares at exercise to cover strike + tax; 2,322 shares held 1 yr for LTCG.
Social Security + Medicare are payroll taxes (collectively called FICA) — they apply because you're exercising as a current employee.
Both columns are stated in year-1 dollars: sell-now proceeds compound at the market return and pay LTCG on the gain at year 1; any cash paid out of pocket on the hold side carries the same opportunity cost.
Net at year N — by hold period
Estimates only. Excludes AMT (NSOs do not trigger AMT), state-AMT, multi-state moves, and disqualifying-disposition edge cases. Not financial advice.
You calculated one NSO decision. The beta plans NSOs alongside RSUs and ISOs in a single multi-year tax plan.
Request beta access →About ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is a privately held AI company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in New York, NY.
Last reported secondary-market price: $80.01 per share (as of 2026-06-09). Your own 409A may differ.
$11B; voice AI.
Equity grants at ElevenLabs typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
ElevenLabs Inc. is a software company that specializes in developing natural-sounding speech synthesis software using deep learning. It was founded in 2022 by Polish entrepreneurs Piotr Dąbkowski and Mateusz Staniszewski. ElevenLabs is legally incorporated in the US, with offices in New York City, London and Warsaw.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Founded 2022 by Mati Staniszewski (ex-Palantir) and Piotr Dabkowski (ex-Google ML engineer), ElevenLabs builds AI voice generation tools spanning text-to-speech in 70+ languages, voice cloning from short samples, AI dubbing that preserves intonation across 20+ languages, and a Conversational AI Agents platform for developers. Customers include Deutsche Telekom and Revolut. The Delaware C-corp operates from London and NYC. Series C closed January 2025 at $180M ($3.3B valuation, Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ). February 2026 brought a $500M Series D at $11B, with IPO reportedly on the table.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · techcrunch.com · cnbc.com
Equity comp at ElevenLabs
- Recent share-sale events (industry term: tender offers):
- Sep 2025: $6.6B implied valuation, led by Sequoia Capital and ICONIQ Growth · bloomberg.com
Researched 2026-05-07.
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ElevenLabs NSO exercise creates ordinary income on the bargain element (federal, state, and FICA) at the price on the day you exercise. The calculator works at any valuation, so you can model your exercise cost at the current 409A FMV, an expected IPO price, or post-IPO scenarios.
Example: at ElevenLabs's last reported price of $80.01, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $24 strike creates a $280,050 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $75,614 and $126,023 depending on your bracket and state. The calculator above computes the exact figure for your situation and compares selling now vs. holding through the long-term capital-gains threshold.
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ElevenLabs equity questions
- How is a ElevenLabs NSO exercise taxed?
- Exercising a non-qualified stock option (NSO) creates ordinary income on the bargain element (the price on the day you exercise minus your strike), subject to federal income tax, state income tax, and FICA. The calculator above computes that tax for your ElevenLabs grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does ElevenLabs grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at ElevenLabs typically takes the form of incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs). Incentive stock options can trigger the alternative minimum tax (AMT) when you exercise.
- Are ElevenLabs shares eligible for QSBS?
- They might be. Qualified small business stock (QSBS) under Internal Revenue Code Section 1202 can exclude federal tax on much of the gain when shares were acquired at original issuance from a C-corporation while its gross assets were under $50 million, and held at least five years. Whether your ElevenLabs shares qualify turns on when you acquired them and the company's asset size at that time.
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