Eleven v3
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 Superseded in quality by eleven_v4 (2026-09-28) but still current.
- Input
- text
- Output
- audio
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- per 1k characters: $0.08 (per 1K characters (API)) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs API | eleven_v3 | https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id} | docs |
| ElevenLabs API (Text to Dialogue) | eleven_v3 | https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-dialogue | — |
| Runway API | eleven_v3 | https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1/text_to_speech | docs |
| Web app | — | elevenlabs.io/app | — |
Notable capabilities (3)
- Inline audio tags: Controls delivery with inline tags like [whispers], [laughs], [sighs], [excited]; marketed as 'the most expressive Text to Speech model' at launch. Not marked first: bracketed non-verbal cues existed earlier (e.g. Suno Bark, 2023). source
- Text to Dialogue (multi-speaker): Dedicated Text to Dialogue API for multi-speaker conversations with natural pacing and interruptions. source
- GA release with symbol/number normalization (found after launch): GA on 2026-02-02: preferred 72% of the time over alpha; error rate on numbers/symbols/notation cut 68% (15.3% -> 4.9%). source
Expressive TTS with audio tags; superseded in quality by eleven_v4 but still current.
curl -X POST "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/$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
Changelog
- 2026-09-29: release date corrected to 2025-06-03 (blog); GA date 2026-02-02, Text to Dialogue, AA Elo added.
Sources: 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
Timeline entry
- ElevenLabs launches Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, #1 on Artificial Analysis TTS arena ★★★★
On 2026-09-28 ElevenLabs released Eleven v4 (eleven_v4), a text-to-speech model on an entirely new architecture that performs scripts with context-aware emotion, and Eleven v4 Turbo (eleven_v4_turbo, ~100 ms median inference latency) for voice agents. v4 took #1 on the Artificial Analysis TTS…
Other ElevenLabs models
Eleven v4 / Eleven v4 Turbo · Eleven Music v2.5 · Eleven v3 Conversational · Scribe v2 / Scribe v2 Medical · Scribe v2 Realtime · Eleven Sound Effects v2 · Eleven Flash v2.5 / Flash v2 · Eleven Multilingual v2 · Eleven Multilingual STS v2 (Voice Changer) · Eleven Voice Design v3 (Text to Voice) · Eleven Dubbing v2 · Scribe v1 · Eleven Turbo v2.5 / Turbo v2