As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-scribe-v1/

# Scribe v1

ElevenLabs, Scribe family. Status: deprecated. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2025-02-26.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs API | `scribe_v1` | https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/speech-to-text | https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: audio, video
- Output: text
- 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: 102. 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 Flash v2.5 / Flash v2 (2024-12-18) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-flash-v2-5/
- After it from ElevenLabs: Eleven v3 (2025-06-03) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-v3/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- ElevenLabs' first speech-to-text model: 99 languages, word timestamps, diarization and audio-event tagging; claimed highest benchmark accuracy vs Gemini 2.0 and Whisper v3 at launch ($0.40/hour). Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/meet-scribe

## Notes

Deprecated on the models page ('First generation speech recognition (outclassed by v2)'). Use scribe_v2. Current price not listed separately.

Sources: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models , https://elevenlabs.io/blog/meet-scribe

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-scribe-v1/