Eleven v4 / Eleven v4 Turbo

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).

Input

text

Output

audio

License

proprietary

Pricing

per 1k characters: $0.08 · promo per 1k characters: $0.022 · turbo per 1k characters: $0.04 · turbo promo per 1k characters: $0.011 · promo ends: 2026-10-12 (per 1K characters, list price for eleven_v4 (eleven_v4_turbo list $0.04/1K). Launch promo 72% off until 2026-10-12: eleven_v4 $0.022/1K, eleven_v4_turbo $0.011/1K (= $22 / $11 per 1M chars)) source

Verified

2026-09-29

How to call it

Notable capabilities (7)

• 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
• #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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• IPA pronunciation control: Pronunciation control with IPA support; more natural multi-speaker dialogue. source

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

Timeline entry

1. 2026-09-28ElevenLabs 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 Music v2.5 · Eleven v3 Conversational · Scribe v2 / Scribe v2 Medical · Scribe v2 Realtime · Eleven Sound Effects v2 · Eleven v3 · 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