Shotcraft
Voice and speech

Eleven Multilingual v2

The older ElevenLabs workhorse model, described in the docs as the most stable choice for long-form generation.

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

Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Permitted subject to conditions

It covers 29 languages and accepts up to 10,000 characters per request. Still the default recommendation when consistency across a long read matters more than expressiveness.

Commercial use — Permitted subject to conditions

Free tier non-commercial only; paid plans permit commercial use.

  • The free tier is non-commercial. Free tier non-commercial only; paid plans permit commercial use
  • Depends on your plan tier. Free tier non-commercial only; paid plans permit commercial use

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Specification

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What it takes in
text
What it makes
audio
Controls
voice-cloning, speed-control, pronunciation-dictionary, streaming-low-latency
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
$0.10 per 1,000 characters ($100 per 1M characters) per the API pricing page's Multilingual v2/v3 tier, at ~250-300ms latency.
Released or updated
not established
Languages
29, not individually listed by the vendor

Strengths

  • Documented as most stable on long-form generations
  • 10,000-character request limit
  • Mature, widely integrated model

Weaknesses

  • Only 29 languages
  • Higher latency (~250-300ms per pricing page) than Flash
  • Less emotional control than v3

Best for

What to understand before using it

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Eleven v3

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.