Shotcraft
Voice and speech

Eleven v3

ElevenLabs' most expressive text-to-speech model, aimed at emotionally varied narration rather than lowest latency.

A speech model by ElevenLabs · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing high

Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Permitted subject to conditions

It supports natural multi-speaker dialogue and a large language set. Character limit per request is lower than the older long-form models.

Commercial use — Permitted subject to conditions

Terms of use state users retain rights in their Output but grant ElevenLabs a broad license to use content to provide and improve services.

  • The free tier is non-commercial. Free users are limited to non-commercial purposes; paid users may use the services commercially

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Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from ElevenLabs's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is strong: the figures came from pages we retrieved and read. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text
What it makes
audio
Controls
emotion-control, style-prompting, multi-speaker-dialogue, voice-cloning
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
Usage-based. API pricing page lists $0.10 per 1,000 characters for Multilingual v2/v3 quality tier (i.e. $100 per 1M characters) at ~250-300ms latency; subscription tiers from Free through Creator ($22/mo after first month), Pro ($99), Scale ($299), Business ($990).
Released or updated
not established
Languages
70, not individually listed by the vendor

Strengths

  • Widest language coverage in the ElevenLabs lineup (70+)
  • Multi-speaker dialogue in a single generation
  • Strong emotional range for character and trailer work

Weaknesses

  • 5,000-character request cap is half of Multilingual v2's
  • Latency not published for the non-conversational variant
  • Higher price tier than Flash

Best for

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Eleven Flash v2.5

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Sources

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