Plain-English Summary
ElevenLabs’ most expressive speech model for emotional delivery, dialogue, and multilingual narration.
Eleven v3
ElevenLabs’ most expressive speech model for emotional delivery, dialogue, and multilingual narration.
Eleven
Audio / Speech
GA
Open weights: No
API: Yes
Technical Notes
Text-to-speech model supporting 70+ languages, multi-speaker dialogue, audio tags, and highly expressive delivery.
Best For
Audiobooks, character dialogue, advertising, dramatic narration
Watch Out For
Higher latency and more prompt-sensitive than Flash; not ideal for real-time agents.
Model Specs
- Maker
- ElevenLabs
- Country
- USA
- Family
- Eleven
- Type
- Audio / Speech
- Release date
- 2025-06-03
- Date confidence
- Initial alpha release; now GA
- Status
- GA
- Context window
- Varies
- Max output
- Not listed
- Parameters
- Not disclosed
- Active parameters
- Not disclosed
- Architecture
- Proprietary generative speech model
- Reasoning
- Not applicable
- Tool calling
- No
- Structured output
- No
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- License
- Proprietary
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Audio
- Approx. price
- $0.10 per 1,000 characters (API list pricing)
- How to access
- Provider website or API
- Model / API ID
- eleven_v3
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not publicly disclosed
- Fine-tuning
- Voice selection, cloning, audio tags
- Completeness
- 81 %
- Verified
- Jul 18, 2026
- Snapshot date
- Jul 18, 2026
- Source
- Official source