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# Eleven v3 Conversational

ElevenLabs, Eleven v3 family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2026-08-19.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs API | `eleven_v3_conversational` | https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id}/stream | https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models |
| ElevenAgents |  |  | https://elevenlabs.io/agents |

## Pricing

- Per 1K characters: $0.04
- Unit as published: per 1K characters (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: 34. 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 Dubbing v2 (2026-05-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-dubbing-v2/
- After it from ElevenLabs: Eleven v4 / Eleven v4 Turbo (2026-09-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-v4/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

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

## 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 Superseded for agents by eleven_v4_turbo (2026-09-28, ~100 ms).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.

Real-time variant of Eleven v3 for voice agents.

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

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-v3-conversational/