Eleven v3: model ids and price

How to call it

4 ways to use Eleven v3, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Eleven v3
Provider	Model id	Endpoint	Docs
ElevenLabs API	`eleven_v3`	`https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id}`	elevenlabs.io
ElevenLabs API (Text to Dialogue)	`eleven_v3`	`https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-dialogue`
Runway API	`eleven_v3`	`https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1/text_to_speech`	docs.dev.runwayml.com
Web app			elevenlabs.io

Pricing

Prices for Eleven v3
Per 1K characters	$0.08

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: 3 June 2025
Status: Current
Type: Speech and audio

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

Inline audio tags

Controls delivery with inline tags like [whispers], [laughs], [sighs], [excited]; marketed as ‘the most expressive Text to Speech model’ at launch. Not marked first: bracketed non-verbal cues existed earlier (e.g. Suno Bark, 2023).

Source: elevenlabs.io
Text to Dialogue (multi-speaker)

Dedicated Text to Dialogue API for multi-speaker conversations with natural pacing and interruptions.

Source: elevenlabs.io
GA release with symbol/number normalization

Found after launch

GA on 2026-02-02: preferred 72% of the time over alpha; error rate on numbers/symbols/notation cut 68% (15.3% -> 4.9%).

Source: elevenlabs.io

Notes

Alpha announced 2025-06-03 (blog date); API initially via sales, GA across all platforms 2026-02-02. 70+ languages, 5,000 chars/request. Artificial Analysis TTS arena Elo ~1169 (Sept 2026). Professional Voice Clones not supported on v3 (restored in v4). Real-time variant eleven_v3_conversational has its own file. Voice design: eleven_ttv_v3. Superseded in quality by eleven_v4 (2026-09-28) but still current.

curl -X POST "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/$VOICE_ID" -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"text":"[whispers] Did you hear that?","model_id":"eleven_v3"}' -o out.mp3