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# Eleven v4 / Eleven v4 Turbo

ElevenLabs, Eleven v4 family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2026-09-28.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs API | `eleven_v4` | https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id} | https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/text-to-speech/eleven-v4 |
| ElevenLabs API | `eleven_v4_turbo` | https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id} | https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models |
| fal | `elevenlabs/tts/eleven-v4` |  | https://fal.ai/models/elevenlabs/tts/eleven-v4 |
| fal | `elevenlabs/tts/eleven-v4-turbo` |  | https://fal.ai/models/elevenlabs/tts/eleven-v4-turbo |
| Web app (ElevenCreative) |  |  | https://elevenlabs.io/app |
| Landing page / demos |  |  | https://elevenlabs.io/v4 |

## Pricing

- Per 1K characters: $0.08
- Per 1K characters, Turbo: $0.04
- Promo ended: 2026-10-12
- Unit as published: per 1K characters, list price for eleven_v4 (eleven_v4_turbo $0.04/1K). The 72% launch promo ($0.022 / $0.011 per 1K) ended on 2026-10-12; the pricing page showed list prices with no discount label when checked on 2026-10-14
- Source: https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api
- Last checked: 2026-10-14

## 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: 14. 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 Conversational (2026-08-19) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-v3-conversational/
- After it from ElevenLabs: Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- Context-aware "performed" delivery (new architecture): Entirely new TTS architecture that 'reads a script the way a voice actor would', interpreting tone, pacing, emotion, character and context; preferred by ~75% of listeners (65-81% range) in blind head-to-head tests vs Cartesia Sonic 3.6, Inworld TTS-2, Gemini TTS, xAI TTS and GPT-4o mini TTS. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v4
- #1 on Artificial Analysis TTS arena: Took #1 on the Artificial Analysis Provider Voice TTS Arena (Elo ~1315-1319 at launch, ahead of Cartesia Sonic 3.6 at 1275 and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at 1267) and #1 on AA's Pronunciation Robustness benchmark, #2 on Controlled Voice. Source: https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard
- Real-time Turbo variant (~100 ms): eleven_v4_turbo: ~100 ms median inference latency, ~150 ms median time to first speech (vs Cartesia Sonic 3.6 262 ms, GPT-4o mini TTS 814 ms per ElevenLabs), for voice agents. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/v4
- Cross-lingual native accent, 90+ languages: 90+ languages (new: Cantonese, Mongolian, Odia); when target language differs from the reference voice, v4 speaks with a fluent native accent instead of carrying over the source accent. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/text-to-speech/eleven-v4
- Inline tags incl. sound effects and free-text direction: Inline tags direct delivery, emotion, pacing, reactions, SFX and style, e.g. [laughs], [said angrily in French accent], [light rain], [phone buzzing], [quick, light, playful pace]. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v4
- Voice cloning from 10 s, PVC support restored: Instant Voice Clones from ~10 s of audio (docs still recommend 1-2 min); Professional Voice Clones supported again (not available on v3); speaker identity kept across regenerations/long-form. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/v4
- IPA pronunciation control: Pronunciation control with IPA support; more natural multi-speaker dialogue. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_tXR2QQ6U

## Notes

Launched 2026-09-28 (blog, YouTube 07:01 PT, X) in ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI, incl. free tier. eleven_v4: 10,000 chars/request; eleven_v4_turbo: no char limit listed on models page. Output formats MP3, WAV/PCM, u-law. Limitations: no Style/Speed sliders, no SSML (Stability + Similarity only); Voice Design voices may perform worse than with earlier models. Launch promo also: v4 free for Creator+ plans in ElevenCreative up to 2x monthly credits for two weeks. Third-party: on fal since launch day (fal X post https://x.com/fal/status/2104630460542325071): elevenlabs/tts/eleven-v4 at $0.08/1K chars and elevenlabs/tts/eleven-v4-turbo at $0.04/1K chars, the ElevenLabs list prices (fal model pages, checked 2026-09-29). Research led by Piotr Dabkowski (per press).

ElevenLabs' newest, most expressive TTS (eleven_v4); eleven_v4_turbo for agents/real time. Successor to Eleven v3.

```bash
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":"[laughs] Well... I did not expect that!","model_id":"eleven_v4"}' -o out.mp3
```

Launch videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_tXR2QQ6U (ElevenLabs), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QHFkK2MTcw (ElevenLabs Developers).

Sources: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v4 , https://elevenlabs.io/v4 , https://elevenlabs.io/docs/models , https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api , https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2104572127617994917 , https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2104572138347004161 , https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2104578736687653293

### Changelog
- 2026-10-14: launch promo ended; pricing page shows list prices $0.08 / $0.04 per 1K characters (checked elevenlabs.io/pricing/api)
- 2026-09-29: added fal access rows (elevenlabs/tts/eleven-v4, eleven-v4-turbo) with prices from fal model pages

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-v4/