Question 1

What is ElevenLabs Multilingual v2?

Accepted Answer

ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 is a text-to-speech model from ElevenLabs, released on 22 August 2023. The industry standard for expressive cloned voices.

Question 2

When was ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 released?

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ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 was released by ElevenLabs on 22 August 2023.

Question 3

How much does ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 cost?

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ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 costs about $0.18 per 1,000 characters of generated audio (~150–200 spoken words). A 1,000-word voiceover therefore runs roughly $1.08.

Question 4

What is ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 best for?

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ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 is most useful for audiobooks, game npcs and voice assistants. Its key strengths are best voice cloning, wide language support and 11 emotion settings.

Question 5

How fast is ElevenLabs Multilingual v2?

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ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 with a typical time-to-first-token of 400 ms on the major API providers.

Question 6

Is ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 better than Cartesia Sonic?

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ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 and Cartesia Sonic target slightly different workloads — see the full breakdown for benchmark scores and pricing. See our full ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 vs Cartesia Sonic comparison at /ai-models/compare/cartesia-sonic-vs-elevenlabs-v2/.

Question 7

What is the best alternative to ElevenLabs Multilingual v2?

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The closest alternatives to ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 are Cartesia Sonic, OpenAI TTS (HD) and GPT-5.5. Each shares most of ElevenLabs Multilingual v2’s use-cases — pick by price, context window or specific capability rather than headline intelligence.

Question 8

Is ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 open source?

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No. ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 is proprietary — the weights are not released. Access is via ElevenLabs’s own API and partner platforms. For open-weights alternatives in the same tier, see our open-source AI models page.

Question 9

Can I use ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 for free?

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ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 offers a small free tier (typically a few minutes / images per month) via its consumer product. Beyond the free tier it’s billed per second of video / per minute of audio / per generated image.

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