# ElevenLabs launches Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models for voice agents By Steven Van · 2026-10-20 Eleven Realtime v1 Mini and v1 Max each work as a complete voice agent, starting to talk in about half a second in 90+ languages. [ElevenLabs]() introduced Eleven Realtime on October 20, a new class of speech-to-speech models for voice agents. ElevenLabs says voice agents usually make you choose between quick replies and precise answers, and Eleven Realtime is built to give you both. [View media]() Official Eleven Realtime announcement demo. Each model is a complete voice agent, with speech recognition, turn-taking, the language model and the voice tuned together as one system. There are two: v1 Mini, the lower-cost option for assistants, tutors and interactive characters, and v1 Max, which reasons before it responds and is aimed at customer support, lead qualification and multi-step tasks with tool calls. ElevenLabs says v1 Max starts speaking in 0.57 seconds on average and v1 Mini in 0.62 seconds, and that v1 Max answered 98.8% of the spoken reasoning questions in the Big Bench Audio test correctly. Both support 90+ languages and voices from the ElevenLabs library. Eleven Realtime is available in ElevenAgents and through a Realtime API that is compatible with OpenAI’s Realtime API, so developers can switch by changing the endpoint and model name. The announcement does not list per-minute pricing. Sources: [ElevenLabs’ announcement and demo](), [the launch blog post]() and [the Eleven Realtime page](). [Read ElevenLabs launches Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models for voice agents on Creators Toolbox]() --- Canonical source: https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/elevenlabs-eleven-realtime-speech-to-speech