{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-v3/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-v3/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"elevenlabs-v3","name":"Eleven v3","org":"ElevenLabs","family":"Eleven v3","released":"2025-06-03","status":"current","type":"audio/speech","modality_in":["text"],"modality_out":["audio"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":null,"max_output":null,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"per_1k_characters":0.08,"unit":"per 1K characters (API)","source":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api"},"price_line":"$0.08 per 1K characters","access":[{"provider":"ElevenLabs API","model_id":"eleven_v3","endpoint":"https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id}","docs":"https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models"},{"provider":"ElevenLabs API (Text to Dialogue)","model_id":"eleven_v3","endpoint":"https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-dialogue"},{"provider":"Runway API","model_id":"eleven_v3","endpoint":"https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1/text_to_speech","docs":"https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/models/"},{"provider":"Web app","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/app"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Inline audio tags","detail":"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).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3"},{"name":"Text to Dialogue (multi-speaker)","detail":"Dedicated Text to Dialogue API for multi-speaker conversations with natural pacing and interruptions.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3"},{"name":"GA release with symbol/number normalization","detail":"GA on 2026-02-02: preferred 72% of the time over alpha; error rate on numbers/symbols/notation cut 68% (15.3% -> 4.9%).","first":false,"discovered":"later","source":"https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3-is-now-generally-available"}],"entry":"2026-09-28-elevenlabs-eleven-v4","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.","verified":"2026-09-29","body_md":"Expressive TTS with audio tags; superseded in quality by eleven_v4 but still current.\n\n```bash\ncurl -X POST \"https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/$VOICE_ID\" -H \"xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"text\":\"[whispers] Did you hear that?\",\"model_id\":\"eleven_v3\"}' -o out.mp3\n```\n\n## Changelog\n- 2026-09-29: release date corrected to 2025-06-03 (blog); GA date 2026-02-02, Text to Dialogue, AA Elo added.\n\nSources: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models , https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api , https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3 , https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3-is-now-generally-available","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-v3/","standing":{"kind":"speech and audio","newer_count":92,"newer":[{"id":"nemotron-3-5-transcribe","name":"NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)","org":"NVIDIA","released":"2026-10-28","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/"},{"id":"hy-simulmt-30b-a3b","name":"Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B","org":"Tencent","released":"2026-10-22","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/"},{"id":"eleven-realtime-v1-max","name":"Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini","org":"ElevenLabs","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/"},{"id":"voxtral-mini-transcribe-3","name":"Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/"},{"id":"voxtral-small-transcribe-3","name":"Voxtral Small Transcribe 3","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/"}],"before":{"id":"elevenlabs-scribe-v1","name":"Scribe v1","org":"ElevenLabs","released":"2025-02-26","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-scribe-v1/"},"after":{"id":"elevenlabs-sound-effects-v2","name":"Eleven Sound Effects v2","org":"ElevenLabs","released":"2025-09","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-sound-effects-v2/"},"weights":"closed","licence":"proprietary","licence_permissive":false,"summary":"Closed weights; access is hosted only."}}