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ElevenLabs Multilingual v2

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elevenlabs/multilingual-v2 · by ElevenLabs · neural-tts

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About this offering: ElevenLabs' Multilingual v2: high voice quality and emotional range across 29 languages, with voice cloning and dubbing. The newer Eleven v3 and Eleven v4 have the same $80 per 1M list price; Multilingual v2 remains available.

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  • $120.00 / 1M characters Historical 2023-10-01 → 2026-07-29

    Earlier effective rate, worked out from ElevenLabs' Scale-plan credits before it published a direct API rate.

  • $100.00 / 1M characters Historical 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-29
    ElevenLabs' API pricing page listed Multilingual v2 and v3 as one row at $0.10 per 1K characters ($100 per…

    ElevenLabs' API pricing page listed Multilingual v2 and v3 as one row at $0.10 per 1K characters ($100 per 1M).

  • $80.00 / 1M characters Current 2026-09-30 → present
    List price on ElevenLabs' API pricing page: $0.08 per 1K characters ($80 per 1M), the same as Eleven v3…

    List price on ElevenLabs' API pricing page: $0.08 per 1K characters ($80 per 1M), the same as Eleven v3 (checked 2026-10-11).

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Capability profile

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

voice naturalness Strong

Best-in-class naturalness; often indistinguishable from human speech on English.

language support Strong

29 languages with high quality across European and East Asian languages.

voice variety Strong

Library of 5,000+ voices; professional voice cloning from as little as 1 minute of audio.

streaming latency Moderate

Higher latency than Flash v2.5 (~400ms first-byte). Not ideal for real-time.

cloning support Strong

Voice cloning, dubbing, speech-to-speech, emotion control via API.

Benchmarks

Benchmark Score Config Source
First-byte latency (vendor-reported) 400 ms Approximate; vendor-reported. Significantly higher than Flash v2.5's ~75ms. Not independently verified. source ↗
MOS (naturalness) — Consistently rated best-in-class in community comparisons. No formally published MOS score. —

Operator guidance

A strong choice for high-quality narration where audio quality drives how listeners judge the product. ElevenLabs' newer Eleven v3 and v4 cost the same $80 per 1M characters and add more delivery control. Route latency-sensitive applications to Flash v2.5 ($40 per 1M); for simple utility TTS at scale, OpenAI TTS-1 ($15 per 1M) is about 5x cheaper.

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