# ElevenLabs is now on OpenRouter By Steven Van · 2026-10-07 All OpenRouter customers get 50% off the 11 ElevenLabs models through October 19 at 8am PT, with no separate ElevenLabs plan required. Apps that already use [OpenRouter]() can now add speech generation and transcription using the same API key, without a separate ElevenLabs plan. The [launch]() brings nine Text to Speech models and two Speech to Text models. ## Choose a model for the job Eleven v4 supports expressive narration and character work, with audio tags such as \[whispering\] and \[laughing\] to direct delivery. Eleven v4 Turbo targets low-latency voice agent replies and bills at half the v4 per-character rate. Multilingual v2 offers speed control for long-form audio. Flash v2.5 supports 32 languages and up to 40,000 characters per request for high-volume speech. The lineup also includes v3, v3 Conversational, Flash v2, Turbo v2.5 and Turbo v2. For transcription, Scribe v2 provides word timestamps, speaker labels and audio-event tags in more than 90 languages. Scribe v2 Medical is fine-tuned for medical terminology, with ElevenLabs reporting 35% fewer errors on clinical audio than Scribe v2. Both use the same request format and per-second price. Realtime Scribe v2 over WebSocket is not included in this launch. ## From narration to spoken replies Speech generation uses POST /api/v1/audio/speech, while transcription uses POST /api/v1/audio/transcriptions. Speech requests accept any of ElevenLabs’ 21 premade voices by name and an explicit output format, such as MP3. The walkthrough starts with a product tour narrated by v4. Longer scripts are split at paragraph boundaries to fit its 10,000-character request limit. Passing neighboring text through ElevenLabs-specific options helps keep intonation consistent between chunks; audio tags count toward billed characters. A voice agent then chains Scribe v2 to transcribe a spoken question, a chat model to answer it, and v4 Turbo to generate the reply. The chat model can be changed without altering the audio calls. Scribe v2 also supports speaker-labeled transcripts for the team’s review meeting. ## Launch pricing Every ElevenLabs model is **50% off OpenRouter’s list price** for all OpenRouter customers through October 19 at 8am PT. ![OpenRouter]() OpenRouter One API for 500+ AI models across 80+ providers — pay with credits that work anywhere, with automatic fallback when a provider goes down. [View OpenRouter →]() [Original source]() [Read ElevenLabs is now on OpenRouter on Creators Toolbox]() --- Canonical source: https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/openrouter-elevenlabs-is-now-on-openrouter