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# Eleven Flash v2.5 / Flash v2

ElevenLabs, Eleven Flash family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2024-12-18.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs API | `eleven_flash_v2_5` | https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id} | https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models |
| ElevenLabs API (English only) | `eleven_flash_v2` | https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id} | https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models |

## Pricing

- Per 1K characters: $0.04
- Unit as published: per 1K characters (API, Flash/Turbo tier)
- Source: https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text
- Output: audio
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 105. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- Before it from ElevenLabs: Eleven Multilingual v2 (2023-08-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-multilingual-v2/
- After it from ElevenLabs: Scribe v1 (2025-02-26) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-scribe-v1/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- ~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: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models

## 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

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-flash-v2-5/