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# Eleven Sound Effects v2

ElevenLabs, Eleven Sound Effects family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2025-09.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs API | `eleven_text_to_sound_v2` | https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/sound-generation | https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/sound-effects |
| fal | `fal-ai/elevenlabs/sound-effects/v2` |  | https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/elevenlabs/sound-effects/v2 |
| Web app |  |  | https://elevenlabs.io/sound-effects |

## Pricing

- Per minute: $0.12
- Unit as published: per minute of generated audio (API)
- 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: 85. 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 v3 (2025-06-03) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-v3/
- After it from ElevenLabs: Scribe v2 Realtime (2025-11-11) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-scribe-v2-realtime/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- Seamless looping SFX, 48 kHz: Text-to-sound effects up to 30 s per generation (0.1-30 s selectable), seamless looping for longer ambiences, prompt-influence control; MP3, WAV 48 kHz for non-looping. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/sound-effects

## Notes

Release month (Sept 2025) is from third-party sources, not an official post. App pricing: 40 credits/second when duration is set.

Sources: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models , https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api , https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/sound-effects

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-sound-effects-v2/