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ElevenLabs Flash v2.5

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elevenlabs/flash-v2-5 · by ElevenLabs · neural-tts

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  • $60.00 / 1M characters Historical 2024-06-01 → 2026-07-29
  • $50.00 / 1M characters Historical 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-29
    Found stale while primary-sourcing pricing for a separate Eleven v3 registry addition (SCO-346): the previous…

    Found stale while primary-sourcing pricing for a separate Eleven v3 registry addition (SCO-346): the previous $60/1M entry was derived from an effective Scale-plan rate (per its own note, "not published" directly). ElevenLabs has since stood up a dedicated pay-as-you-go API pricing page (elevenlabs.io/pricing/api) with a direct rate — "Flash / Turbo: $0.05 per 1K characters" ($50/1M) — for the model group this offering belongs to. effective_to on the prior entry is the date before this one was first verified, not a confirmed price-change date; the actual date ElevenLabs' rate changed (if it did, versus simply not having published a direct rate before) is unknown.

  • $40.00 / 1M characters Current 2026-09-30 → present
    SCO-672: elevenlabs.io/pricing/api now lists "Flash / Turbo" at $0.04 per 1K characters ($40/1M). That's the…

    SCO-672: elevenlabs.io/pricing/api now lists "Flash / Turbo" at $0.04 per 1K characters ($40/1M). That's the list price: this card has no promo tag and no struck price (only v4 and v4 Turbo carry the "72% off until Oct 12" promo). SCO-346 read $0.05 per 1K from the same page on 2026-07-30, so ElevenLabs cut the rate between those dates. The exact change date is unknown (no archived snapshot was reachable), so effective_from is the date this was verified.

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Capability profile

How ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 rates across core capability dimensions, with the task-level evidence behind each rating.

voice naturalness Moderate

Strong naturalness for a latency-optimised model; noticeable quality gap vs Multilingual v2 on close listening.

language support Strong

32 languages; slightly broader language coverage than Multilingual v2.

voice variety Strong

Access to the full ElevenLabs voice library and voice cloning.

streaming latency Strong

~75ms first-byte latency; designed for real-time conversational AI.

cloning support Strong

Full voice cloning, speech-to-speech, emotion control via API.

Benchmarks

Benchmark Score Config Source
First-byte latency (vendor-reported) 75 ms Streaming endpoint, ElevenLabs infrastructure. Vendor-reported, not independently verified. source ↗
MOS (naturalness) — No formally published MOS score. Community comparisons rate it below Multilingual v2 but above commodity TTS APIs. —

Operator guidance

The default ElevenLabs choice for interactive and real-time applications. At ~$50/1M chars (half the cost of Multilingual v2), it covers most use cases. Upgrade to Multilingual v2 only when audio quality is the primary differentiator (e.g. final production narration).

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