Music and sound

ElevenLabs Sound Effects (eleven_text_to_sound_v2)

Name: ElevenLabs Sound Effects (eleven_text_to_sound_v2)
Author: ElevenLabs

Generates sound effects, foley, ambiences and short musical elements from a text description, from 0.5 to 30 seconds per generation.

An audio model by ElevenLabs · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing high

Up to: 30 seconds
Resolution: MP3 from 22.05 kHz/32 kbps up to 44.1 kHz/192 kbps; WAV at 48 kHz for non-looping effects; PCM 8 kHz-48 kHz and Opus 48 kHz also available
Weights: Not released
API: Yes
Commercial use: Permitted subject to conditions

A loop flag produces seamlessly looping output, and prompt influence controls how literally the model follows the description. If duration is left unset the model infers an optimal length from the prompt.

Commercial use — Permitted subject to conditions

'As between you and ElevenLabs, you retain all rights in and to your Output.' Free users may use the service 'only for non-commercial purposes'; paid subscribers 'use the Services for commercial purposes' subject to the Prohibited Use Policy.

The free tier is non-commercial. 'As between you and ElevenLabs, you retain all rights in and to your Output.' Free users may use the service 'only for non-commercial purposes'; paid subscribers 'use the Services for commercial purposes' subject to the Prohibited Use Policy
Depends on your plan tier. 'As between you and ElevenLabs, you retain all rights in and to your Output.' Free users may use the service 'only for non-commercial purposes'; paid subscribers 'use the Services for commercial purposes' subject to the Prohibited Use Policy
The terms restrict what you may generate. 'As between you and ElevenLabs, you retain all rights in and to your Output.' Free users may use the service 'only for non-commercial purposes'; paid subscribers 'use the Services for commercial purposes' subject to the Prohibited Use Policy

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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
Maximum duration: 30 seconds
Maximum resolution: MP3 from 22.05 kHz/32 kbps up to 44.1 kHz/192 kbps; WAV at 48 kHz for non-looping effects; PCM 8 kHz-48 kHz and Opus 48 kHz also available
Controls: style-prompting, loop-export
Weights: Not released
API: Yes
Pricing: Credit-based on the standard ElevenLabs plans; 40 credits per second of generated audio when a duration is specified. Plans: Free $0 (non-commercial), Starter $6/mo, Creator $22/mo, Pro $99/mo.
Released or updated: not established

Strengths

Seamless looping output for ambiences and backgrounds
48 kHz WAV for non-looping effects
Prompt influence control for literal vs. interpretive results
Understands sound-design vocabulary (braam, whoosh, ambience) and multi-event sequences
Simple per-second credit cost

Weaknesses

Hard 30-second ceiling per generation
Free tier is non-commercial
No stems or layered export
Only one model version available (eleven_text_to_sound_v2)
WAV only for non-looping effects

Best for

Foley, transitions, impacts and UI sounds for video and games
Looping ambience beds
Filling gaps a stock SFX library does not cover

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

No release or update date is published for eleven_text_to_sound_v2, so releasedOrUpdated is null.

What to understand before using it

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

Camera control: a move without a camera names “control”
Conditioning and control: everything you hand the model besides noise names “control”

MCP servers that front ElevenLabs

Servers in the media MCP directory whose own description or homepage names this vendor. Absence of a server here is not evidence that none exists: most publish no tool list at all.

ElevenLabs Audio and voice
ElevenLabs MCP server: TTS, music, sound effects, voices, and audio transcription.
Elevenlabs Audio and voice
RunAPI MCP server for ElevenLabs: create tasks, poll status, check pricing.
Elevenlabs Audio and voice
Convert text to speech, transcribe audio, and dub videos with AI voices.
Jellypod Audio and voice
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Labs Audio and voice
MCP Server with AI-powered tools including ElevenLabs text-to-speech for realistic voice synthesis.
Picsart GenAI Image generation
Generate and edit images, videos and audio with 150+ AI models.

26 further servers name ElevenLabs with lower confidence and are not listed, because a server naming a vendor may be using it for text rather than media.

See it from the vendor

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Sources

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