ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5 is a balanced text-to-speech model optimized for medium-latency narration and podcast workflows. Developers should reach for it when they need a reliable trade-off between generation speed, audio quality, and cost.
Modalities
Text → Audio
Price
$0.2025 / 1K char
Speed
fast
Performance
Live production data from real requests on Kyma — not synthetic benchmarks.
Rank
#80
of 87 active models
Tokens served
56
all-time
Pricing
Per 1,000 characters of input text. Billed on successful synthesis.
$0.2025 / 1K charWhen to use ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5
Where this model earns its cost — and where it doesn't.
This model converts text input into audio output across 32 languages. It operates as a fast, cheap-tier model with strong audio quality, delivering quicker generation than the Multilingual variant while maintaining higher fidelity than the Flash variant.
On Kyma, the model runs through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint using a single API key. It supports prompt caching, which bills repeated prompt prefixes at 10% of the standard input rate. New accounts include a $0.50 free credit with no card required. Every request receives automatic failover, and responses return exact billing data in usage.cost alongside an X-Kyma-Model header to confirm routing.
The model accepts a 5000-token context window and is strictly designed for speech generation. It does not support reasoning, vision, structured outputs, or multimodal inputs, and it will not handle complex logical tasks or data extraction.
Podcast narration generation
Produces consistent voiceovers for long-form audio content with balanced latency.
Multilingual audiobook creation
Converts text to speech across 32 supported languages without sacrificing audio clarity.
Interactive voice applications
Delivers fast audio responses for conversational agents where moderate latency is acceptable.
E-learning module voiceovers
Generates clear instructional audio at a lower cost than premium TTS alternatives.
Not ideal for: Do not use this model for real-time conversational voice agents requiring sub-100ms latency or for tasks requiring structured data extraction and logical reasoning.
Quick start
Up and running in under two minutes.
- 1
Create an API key
Sign up and grab a key from the dashboard — $0.50 free credit, no card required.
Get API key → - 2
Make your first request
Drop in your key and send a chat completion — fully OpenAI-compatible.
curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "eleven-turbo-v2-5", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Explain prompt caching in one paragraph."} ] }' - 3
Stream responses
Add
"stream": trueto receive tokens as they arrive.curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "eleven-turbo-v2-5", "stream": true, "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}] }'
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More models by ElevenLabs
| Model | Context | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
 ElevenLabs Music | — | $0.135 / sec | |
| ElevenLabs v3 | — | $0.405 / 1K char | |
| ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 | — | $0.2025 / 1K char | |
| ElevenLabs Sound Effects | — | $0.027 / call | |
| ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 | — | $0.405 / 1K char | |