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Eleven v4 Turbo API

Eleven v4 Turbo text to speech — Eleven v4's expressive delivery, tuned for speed, billed on input length.

The low-latency version of Eleven v4. Keeps v4's expressive delivery and inline audio tags, tuned for faster generation, across 90+ languages at half the per-character price.

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Eleven v4 Turbo API pricing

Pay per request from your YepAPI balance — no subscription, no monthly minimum. Prices updated October 23, 2026.

BillingPrice
Rate$0.0844/1K chars
What it costsPer job
Short reply200 characters$0.017
Blog post narration10,000 characters (~1,600 words)$0.844
Audiobook chapter100,000 characters$8.44

2,400+

Developers

1.2M+

API calls served

100+

Endpoints

$0.01

Per call

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Eleven v4 Turbo specs

ProviderElevenLabs
Model IDelevenlabs/eleven-v4-turbo
Endpoint/v1/media/queue
TypeText to Speech
Output formatsmp3
Voices21 presets (default sarah)

How to get an Eleven v4 Turbo API key

  1. 1

    Create a free account

    Sign up at yepapi.com with Google or email. It takes about 30 seconds and needs no card.

  2. 2

    Create an API key

    Open the dashboard, go to API Keys and create a key. Copy it — it starts with yep_sk_.

  3. 3

    Call Eleven v4 Turbo

    Send a request to /v1/media/queue with the x-api-key header and model "elevenlabs/eleven-v4-turbo".

  4. 4

    Pay as you go

    Usage is billed per request from your balance. Top up any amount; there is no subscription.

Strengths

✓
Low latency

Tuned for faster generation than Eleven v4.

✓
Keeps v4's expressiveness

The same expressive delivery and inline audio tags as Eleven v4.

✓
90+ languages

The same broad language coverage as the full model.

✓
Half the price of v4

Billed at half of Eleven v4 per character.

Quick start

Copy this snippet and start making calls with Eleven v4 Turbo.

// Step 1: Submit job
const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/media/queue', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "elevenlabs/eleven-v4-turbo",
    "prompt": "[excited] Good news — your build passed on the first try. [calm] Next up, let's get it deployed.",
    "options": {
      "voice": "sarah"
    }
  }),
});
const { data } = await res.json();
const jobId = data.jobId;

// Step 2: Poll for result
const status = await fetch(`https://api.yepapi.com/v1/media/status/${jobId}`, {
  headers: { 'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' },
});
const { data: job } = await status.json();
// job.status: "pending" | "processing" | "completed" | "failed"
// job.result: { text?, image?, audio?, video? }

Eleven v4 Turbo vs similar models

Every model below runs on the same API key — switch by changing the model ID.

ModelProviderPrice
Eleven v4 TurboElevenLabs$0.0844/1K chars
Eleven Flash v2.5ElevenLabs$0.0844/1K chars
Eleven Flash v2ElevenLabs$0.0844/1K chars
Eleven Turbo v2.5ElevenLabs$0.0844/1K chars
Eleven Turbo v2ElevenLabs$0.0844/1K chars
Eleven v3 ConversationalElevenLabs$0.0844/1K chars
Kokoro 82Mhexgrad$0.0014/1K chars
Fish Audio Drama 3Fish Audio$0.0042/1K chars

Why use Eleven v4 Turbo through YepAPI?

✓One API key for all models — no separate accounts
✓No monthly minimums — pay per call
✓Switch models with one line of code
✓Simple REST API — works from any language
✓Unified billing across all providers
✓No rate limits for most use cases

Eleven v4 Turbo API — expressive speech, faster

Eleven v4 Turbo is a low-latency text-to-speech model from ElevenLabs. It keeps Eleven v4's expressive delivery and audio tags while being tuned for faster generation, with support for more than 90 languages.

On YepAPI it is a single `POST /v1/media/queue` call billed at $0.0844 per 1,000 characters — half the rate of Eleven v4 — on the same key that reaches every other speech, image, and video model.

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Frequently asked questions

The low-latency version of Eleven v4. Keeps v4's expressive delivery and inline audio tags, tuned for faster generation, across 90+ languages at half the per-character price.

Eleven v4 Turbo costs $0.0844/1K chars through YepAPI, billed per request with no monthly fee. For example, a short reply (200 characters) costs about $0.017.

Sign up at yepapi.com (Google or email, about 30 seconds), open the dashboard and create an API key. The same key works for Eleven v4 Turbo and every other model — no separate ElevenLabs account or waitlist.

New YepAPI accounts in most countries get free signup credit, enough to test Eleven v4 Turbo without a card. After that you pay per request at the rates above — there is no subscription.

Use "elevenlabs/eleven-v4-turbo" as the model on /v1/media/queue. The short alias "eleven-v4-turbo" also works.

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