Shotcraft
Voice and speech

Eleven Flash v2.5

The low-latency ElevenLabs model, documented at roughly 75ms model latency with a 40,000-character request limit.

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

Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Permitted subject to conditions

It covers 32 languages and is priced at half the rate of the higher-quality tier. Intended for realtime and high-volume batch use.

Commercial use — Permitted subject to conditions

Same ElevenLabs terms as other models: free tier is non-commercial only, paid plans permit commercial use; cloned voices must be your own or one you are authorised to use.

  • The free tier is non-commercial. Same ElevenLabs terms as other models: free tier is non-commercial only, paid plans permit commercial use; cloned voices must be your own or one you are authorised to use
  • Depends on your plan tier. Same ElevenLabs terms as other models: free tier is non-commercial only, paid plans permit commercial use; cloned voices must be your own or one you are authorised to use

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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
streaming-low-latency, speed-control, voice-cloning, pronunciation-dictionary
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
$0.05 per 1,000 characters ($50 per 1M characters) per the API pricing page's Flash/Turbo tier.
Released or updated
not established
Languages
32, not individually listed by the vendor

Strengths

  • ~75ms documented model latency
  • 40,000-character request limit, the largest in the lineup
  • Half the per-character cost of the v2/v3 quality tier

Weaknesses

  • 32 languages vs 70+ on v3
  • Less expressive than v3 for performance-driven reads
  • No documented multi-speaker dialogue mode

Best for

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

MCP servers that front ElevenLabs

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See it from the vendor

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Sources

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