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ElevenLabsEleven Realtime familyCurrentSpeech and audioReleased 20 Oct 2026

Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini

ElevenLabs’ first native speech-to-speech models (Oct 20, 2026): Max for complex multi-step agents, Mini for low-cost conversation.

Model ideleven_realtime_v1_max

Price$0.08 connected audio per minute

Checked25 October 2026

Where it stands

No newer speech and audio model in our registry yet.

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Before it from ElevenLabs
Eleven v4 / Eleven v4 Turbo28 Sep 2026
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

3 ways to use Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
ElevenLabs Realtime API (WebSocket, OpenAI Realtime-compatible) eleven_realtime_v1_max wss://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/realtime elevenlabs.io
ElevenLabs Realtime API eleven_realtime_v1_mini wss://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/realtime elevenlabs.io
ElevenAgents elevenlabs.io

Pricing

Prices for Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini
Max input$1.80
Max output$9
Mini input$0.20
Mini output$6
Connected audio per minute$0.08

As published: “USD per 1M tokens (input / output) plus $0.080 per additional minute of connected audio on the Realtime API (burst $0.160/min); same per-minute rate for Max and Mini”.

Source: elevenlabs.io, checked 25 October 2026.

Specs

Input
Audio and text
Output
Audio and text
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
20 October 2026
Status
Current
Type
Speech and audio

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Reasoning speech-to-speech for tool-heavy agents (Max)

    Max reasons before responding; 87.1% task success on tool-use tasks (Mini 60.3%) and 98.8% on Big Bench Audio (Mini 75.9%), per ElevenLabs citing Artificial Analysis’ independent evaluation.

    Source: elevenlabs.io

  • Drop-in OpenAI Realtime API compatibility

    The Realtime API follows OpenAI’s Realtime spec, so the OpenAI SDK works by changing endpoint and model name; WebSocket only at launch (no WebRTC).

    Source: elevenlabs.io

  • 90+ languages and 17,000+ library voices

    Realtime conversation in over 90 languages with any of 17,000+ ElevenLabs voices; time to first audio ~0.57 s (Max) and ~0.62 s (Mini).

    Source: elevenlabs.io

  • #6 on Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index

    Max scored 77.3 on the AA Speech-to-Speech Index (#6 of 21), Arena Elo 997, time to first audio 0.57 s; Mini 64.4 (#17), read 2026-10-25.

    Source: artificialanalysis.ai

Notes

Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech (https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-speech), read 2026-10-25: v1 Max #6 of 21 by Speech-to-Speech Index (77.3), Arena Elo 997, TTFA 0.57 s, $4.80 per hour of input audio (AA-normalised); v1 Mini 64.4 (#17). ElevenLabs’ own Speech Agent Arena figures: Max 998, Mini 988; Full-Duplex-Bench Mini 95.8%, Max 94.1%. Mini is the default, unavailable under Zero Retention Mode / HIPAA; Max is available under both (US/EU) but not in India or Singapore data residency, and needs max_tokens >= 1024 or no limit. In ElevenAgents, Realtime mode bills the standard ElevenAgents per-minute rate plus tokens; LLM, TTS model and ASR are managed by ElevenLabs; not usable with custom LLM, Bedrock or Speech Engine. Docs say Realtime models are ‘rolling out gradually’. Pricing page does not split audio vs text tokens. No timeline entry yet (lead in data/leads.md, 2026-10-25). Related: elevenlabs-v4, elevenlabs-v3-conversational, gpt-realtime-2-1.

Sources: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/realtime · https://elevenlabs.io/realtime · https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/realtime-models · https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/guides/openai-realtime-compatibility · https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api · https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-speech