Eleven v4
elevenlabs · Released Sep 2026
Conditional. Eleven v4 is ElevenLabs' long-form text-to-speech model (id eleven_v4), covering 90+ languages with multi-speaker dialogue and voice cloning, and accepting up to 10,000 characters per request. The deciding caveat is price: $0.022 per 1K characters is a 72%-off promo that ends Oct 12 against a $0.08 list rate, and the quality claims are ElevenLabs' own, untested by us. Suits teams producing content and long-form audio who budget at list price.
Is it right for you?
Good for
- Content creation and long-form audio: the changelog routes eleven_v4 to the Text to Dialogue API for that use, and the models page gives a 10,000-character limit, about 10 minutes of audio
- Multi-speaker dialogue: the models page lists support for natural multi-speaker dialogue
- Voice cloning: the models page describes high-fidelity cloning with speaker preservation across long text generations
- Multilingual output: 90+ languages per the models page
Not good for
- Real-time agents and interactive apps: ElevenLabs points those to eleven_v4_turbo, and the models page lists no latency figure for eleven_v4
- Single requests over 10,000 characters, which exceed the stated limit
- Budgets built on the launch promo rate: the promo has ended and the pricing page shows $0.08 per 1K characters as the price
How it performs by task
Long-form narration
Positioned by ElevenLabs for content creation and long-form audio with a 10,000-character request limit; vendor-described, untested by us
Multi-speaker dialogue
Natural multi-speaker dialogue is a listed capability via the Text to Dialogue API; vendor-described, untested by us
Voice cloning
ElevenLabs describes high-fidelity cloning with speaker preservation; we have not tested it and the pages we read give no independent score
Pricing
Input
$0.08 / 1K characters
Output
Billed per character (single rate)
Context
List $0.08 / 1K chars; 10K char limit
No verdict changes yet
The clock starts day one. Changes land here as our verdict evolves.
Sources
Verification log
- Pricing· Updated
Automated agent
List price $0.08 per 1K chars confirmed, no promo text on the page. Promo ended Oct 12. Refreshed stale pricing_context, the promo avoid_for row and the cost-first audience. Standing verdict_summary still describes the promo and needs a staged same-rating rewrite at publish.
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