Eleven v3
Speech and audio
eleven_v3
$0.08 per 1K characters
Eleven v3 Conversational
Real-time variant of Eleven v3 for voice agents.
Model ideleven_v3_conversational
Price$0.04 per 1K characters
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
34newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
- Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B22 Oct 2026
- Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- Before it from ElevenLabs
- Eleven Dubbing v228 May 2026
- After it from ElevenLabs
- Eleven v4 / Eleven v4 Turbo28 Sep 2026
- Weights
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.
How to call it
2 ways to use Eleven v3 Conversational, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs API | eleven_v3_conversational |
https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id}/stream |
elevenlabs.io |
| ElevenAgents | elevenlabs.io |
Pricing
| Per 1K characters | $0.04 |
|---|
As published: “per 1K characters (API)”.
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
- 19 August 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.
Real-time v3 with audio tags
Brings Eleven v3’s expressive delivery and audio tags to streaming/real-time use at ~280 ms latency (excl. application & network), 70+ languages.
Notes
GA announced 2026-08-19 (ElevenLabs X post and ElevenLabs Developers YouTube video). Artificial Analysis TTS arena Elo ~1196 (Aug 2026). Superseded for agents by eleven_v4_turbo (2026-09-28, ~100 ms). Exact streaming endpoint shown is the generic TTS stream endpoint; websockets also used in ElevenAgents.
Sources: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models , https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api , https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2090136227617952145 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNMYYsO_UBE