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ElevenLabsEleven Flash familyCurrentSpeech and audioReleased 18 Dec 2024

Eleven Flash v2.5 / Flash v2

Model ideleven_flash_v2_5

Price$0.04 per 1K characters

Checked29 September 2026

Where it stands

105newer speech and audio models since its release

The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models

Before it from ElevenLabs
Eleven Multilingual v222 Aug 2023
After it from ElevenLabs
Scribe v126 Feb 2025
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

2 ways to use Eleven Flash v2.5 / Flash v2, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Eleven Flash v2.5 / Flash v2
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
ElevenLabs API eleven_flash_v2_5 https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id} elevenlabs.io
ElevenLabs API (English only) eleven_flash_v2 https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id} elevenlabs.io

Pricing

Prices for Eleven Flash v2.5 / Flash v2
Per 1K characters$0.04

As published: “per 1K characters (API, Flash/Turbo tier)”.

Source: elevenlabs.io, checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Text
Output
Audio
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
18 December 2024
Status
Current
Type
Speech and audio

What stands out

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

  • ~75 ms TTS

    Ultra-fast model for real-time use: ~75 ms model latency (excl. application & network). Flash v2.5: 32 languages, 40,000 chars/request; Flash v2: English only, 30,000 chars.

    Source: elevenlabs.io

Notes

Announced 2024-12-18 (‘Meet Flash’, X post). Replaced Turbo v2/v2.5 (now deprecated). Text normalization available for Flash v2.5 (enterprise). For expressive real-time use ElevenLabs now points to eleven_v4_turbo (~100 ms).

Sources: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models , https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api , https://elevenlabs.io/blog/meet-flash , https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/1869462840941461941