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ElevenLabs

Eleven Realtime v1 Mini

Released Oct 19, 2026

ElevenLabs' default, fastest and cheapest Eleven Realtime model, for assistants, tutors and interactive characters.

Price per minute
$0.080/min
Inputs
audio, text
Tool calling
Yes
Languages
90
Voices
—
Big Bench Audio
75.9%
Access
Generally available
Licence
Proprietary
Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Full-Duplex-Bench 95.8%, higher than Max
  • Input tokens $0.20 per 1M
  • OpenAI-Realtime-compatible API

Weaknesses

  • Big Bench Audio 75.9% (AA), far below Max
  • Tool-use success 60.3%, vs 87.1% for Max

Not notable: #18 on AA S2S Index (64.4) and #26 on Big Bench Audio (75.9%). The text input modality is inferred from the OpenAI-compatible Realtime API; the blog only says audio in, audio out.

Links

API model strings

  • elevenlabseleven_realtime_v1_mini