ElevenLabs Conversational AI (ElevenAgents)
"Deploy human-like Conversational AI in minutes. ElevenLabs delivers low latency interactions in dozens of languages with enterprise-grade security." [1]
ElevenLabs Conversational AI (ElevenAgents) is a real-time voice agent platform for building inbound and outbound phone automation, covering use cases from customer support and appointment scheduling to healthcare answering services and sales calls. Pricing starts at $0.08 per minute with a free tier of 15 minutes per month, scaling through self-serve plans up to enterprise; telephony costs are billed separately. The platform holds SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS certifications, with SDKs for Python, TypeScript, React, React Native, and Kotlin, plus an MCP server and support for bring-your-own LLM and voice.
Best for / Avoid if
Best for: Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call; Regulated or enterprise workloads - compliance attestations and an enterprise plan; AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt)
Pricing & procurement
- Pricing model
- Hybrid (base + usage) [2]
- Published pricing
- ✓ Yes
- Free tier
- ✓ Yes [3]
- Free tier details
- Free plan at $0/month includes 15 minutes of agent calls per month, up to 4 concurrent calls, Workflow Builder, Knowledge Base, multilingual support, and web widget.
- Self-serve signup
- ✓ Yes
- Requires sales call
- ✗ No
- Enterprise plan
- ✓ Yes [4]
| Plan | Item | Per | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Voice agent platform subscription | month | $0 | source |
| Free | Voice agent included minutes bundle | 15 minutes/month | $0 | source |
| Free | Voice agent orchestration overage (beyond included 15 min) | minute | $0.003 | source |
| Free | Concurrency limit | 4 concurrent calls max | - | source |
| Starter | Voice agent platform subscription | month | $6 | source |
| Starter | Voice agent included minutes bundle | 75 minutes/month | $0 | source |
| Starter | Voice agent orchestration overage (beyond included 75 min) | minute | $0.003 | source |
| Starter | Voice agent orchestration burst (up to 3x concurrency) | minute | $0.16 | source |
| Starter | Concurrency limit | 6 concurrent calls max | - | source |
| Creator | Voice agent platform subscription | month | $22 | source |
| Creator | Voice agent included minutes bundle | 275 minutes/month | $0 | source |
| Creator | Voice agent orchestration overage (beyond included 275 min) | minute | $0.003 | source |
| Creator | Voice agent orchestration burst (up to 3x concurrency) | minute | $0.16 | source |
| Creator | Concurrency limit | 10 concurrent calls max | - | source |
| Pro | Voice agent platform subscription | month | $99 | source |
| Pro | Voice agent included minutes bundle | 1238 minutes/month | $0 | source |
| Pro | Voice agent orchestration overage (beyond included 1,238 min) | minute | $0.003 | source |
| Pro | Voice agent orchestration burst (up to 3x concurrency) | minute | $0.16 | source |
| Pro | Concurrency limit | 20 concurrent calls max | - | source |
| Scale | Voice agent platform subscription | month | $299 | source |
| Scale | Voice agent included minutes bundle | 3738 minutes/month | $0 | source |
| Scale | Voice agent orchestration overage (beyond included 3,738 min) | minute | $0.003 | source |
| Scale | Voice agent orchestration burst (up to 3x concurrency) | minute | $0.16 | source |
| Scale | Concurrency limit | 30 concurrent calls max | - | source |
| Business | Voice agent platform subscription | month | $990 | source |
| Business | Voice agent included minutes bundle | 12375 minutes/month | $0 | source |
| Business | Voice agent orchestration overage (beyond included 12,375 min) | minute | $0.003 | source |
| Business | Voice agent orchestration burst (up to 3x concurrency) | minute | $0.16 | source |
| Business | Concurrency limit | 40 concurrent calls max | - | source |
| All paid plans | Included call rate (implicit per-minute value of monthly bundle) | minute | $0.08 | source |
| All plans | Text message | message | $0.003 | source |
| Enterprise | Voice agent platform subscription | month (custom) | - | source |
Capabilities
- Supported actions
- realtime_conversation, inbound_telephony, outbound_telephony, sip_trunking, function_calling, tool_calling, interruption_handling, byo_llm, byo_voice, knowledge_base, batch_calling, call_recording, web_widget, call_transfer, webhooks, a_b_testing, rag_knowledge_base, dynamic_variables [5]
- Regions
- United States, European Union, India, Singapore [6]
- Languages
- English, Japanese, Chinese, German, Hindi, French, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian, Dutch, Turkish, Filipino, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Arabic, Czech, Greek, Finnish, Croatian, Malay, Slovak, Danish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Vietnamese [7]
- Input types
- PSTN phone call, SIP trunk, WebRTC, web widget, text/chat [8]
- Output types
- audio stream, call transcript, webhook events, structured call summary, conversation analytics
- Webhooks
- ✓ Yes
- Sandbox / test mode
- ✗ No
- SDK languages
- Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, TypeScript/JavaScript (Agents client), React, React Native, Kotlin/Android [9]
- MCP server
- ✓ Yes [10]
Trust & compliance
- SOC 2
- SOC 2 Type II [11]
- HIPAA
- ✓ Yes [12]
- GDPR
- ✓ Yes [13]
- ISO 27001
- ✓ Yes [14]
- PCI DSS
- ✓ Yes [15]
- Published SLA
- ✗ No [16]
- Rate limits
- Concurrency limits by plan: Free=4, Starter=6, Creator=10, Pro=20, Scale=30, Business=40, Enterprise=custom/elevated. Burst pricing allows up to 3x normal concurrency at $0.160/min (double the standard included rate). [17]
- Known restrictions
- LLM costs are currently absorbed by ElevenLabs but will eventually be passed on to customers, Telephony provider costs (Twilio, Telnyx, etc.) billed separately at actual usage rates, EU data residency requires Zero Retention Mode and direct API use (no custom LLMs or webhooks with out-of-region processing), HIPAA BAA available only on Enterprise plan, Custom SSO available only on Enterprise plan, Dubbing functionality unavailable in isolated regional environments [18]
Developer surface
Integration
- API style
- websocket
- Base URL
- https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1
- Version
- v1
- Versioning
- url
- Stability
- ga
- Auth methods
- api_key
- Idempotency keys
- ✗ No
- Error format
- vendor-specific JSON with top-level "detail" object containing type, code, message, status, request_id, param fields
- Webhook signing
- hmac
- Rate limit
- 4 / concurrent calls
Adoption & maturity
- Launched
- 2024-11-11
- GA
- 2024-11-11
- Notable customers
- Revolut, Deliveroo, Epic Games, Deutsche Telekom, Klarna, Meesho, Cisco, NVIDIA, TELUS Digital, Bertelsmann
Other Realtime Voice Agent APIs
OpenAI Realtime API (gpt-realtime)
"The Realtime API enables low-latency, bidirectional audio communication for building voice agents and audio applications."
Telnyx Voice AI Agents
"Carrier-grade Voice AI from Telnyx. Sub-200ms latency, 80+ languages, A-level STIR/SHAKEN attestation, and one platform that replaces 5 vendors."
Twilio ConversationRelay
"Twilio's Conversation Relay empowers you to build powerful AI voice experiences for your customers. Let Twilio handle the heavy lifting of speech recognition, text-to-speech, and voice synthesis."
Vapi
"Build and deploy voice agents that deliver the outcomes you want at the scale your customers need."
Cartesia Line
"Turn any text agent into a world-class conversational agent, deployed anywhere."
Pipecat Cloud (Daily)
"The fastest path to production voice AI" - a managed hosting platform for deploying and scaling Pipecat agents in production with built-in infrastructure.
References
- ↑Description: elevenlabs.io
- ↑Pricing model: elevenlabs.io
- ↑Free tier: elevenlabs.io
- ↑Enterprise plan: elevenlabs.io
- ↑Supported actions: elevenlabs.io · elevenlabs.io
- ↑Regions: elevenlabs.io
- ↑Languages: elevenlabs.io · elevenlabs.io
- ↑Input types: elevenlabs.io
- ↑SDK languages: elevenlabs.io · elevenlabs.io
- ↑MCP server: github.com
- ↑SOC 2: compliance.elevenlabs.io · elevenlabs.io
- ↑HIPAA: elevenlabs.io · elevenlabs.io
- ↑GDPR: elevenlabs.io
- ↑ISO 27001: elevenlabs.io · compliance.elevenlabs.io
- ↑PCI DSS: elevenlabs.io
- ↑Published SLA: elevenlabs.io
- ↑Rate limits: elevenlabs.io
- ↑Known restrictions: elevenlabs.io · elevenlabs.io
Change history
- 2026-06-21 Capabilities: {} → {"byo_models":true,"multilingual":true,"outbound_calling":true}
- 2026-06-21 Summary Md: (none) → ElevenLabs Conversational AI (ElevenAgents) is a real-time voice agent platform…
- 2026-06-21 Score Pricing Transparency: (none) → 100
- 2026-06-21 Score Setup Speed: (none) → 85
- 2026-06-21 Score Docs Quality: (none) → 55
- 2026-06-21 Score Procurement Friction: (none) → 100
- 2026-06-21 Score Trust Readiness: (none) → 80
- 2026-06-21 Scoring Methodology: (none) → Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fi…
- 2026-06-21 Best For: (none) → Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call, Regulated or enter…
- 2026-06-21 Score Agent Friendliness: (none) → 65
- 2026-06-21 Llms Txt Present: (none) → Yes
- 2026-06-21 Changelog URL: (none) → https://elevenlabs.io/changelog
- 2026-06-21 Docs URL: (none) → https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/intro
- 2026-06-21 Llms Txt URL: (none) → https://elevenlabs.io/llms.txt
- 2026-06-21 Rendering: (none) → static
- 2026-06-21 Has Structured Data: (none) → Yes
- 2026-06-21 Robots Allows Agents: (none) → Yes
- 2026-06-21 API Reference URL: (none) → https://elevenlabs.io/api
- 2026-06-21 Status Page URL: (none) → https://status.elevenlabs.io
- 2026-06-21 Free Tier Available: set to Yes
- 2026-06-21 Free Tier Details: set to Free plan at $0/month includes 15 minutes of agent calls per month, up to 4 con…
- 2026-06-21 Self Serve Signup: set to Yes
- 2026-06-21 Requires Sales Call: set to No
- 2026-06-21 Enterprise Plan Available: set to Yes
- 2026-06-21 SOC 2: set to type_2
- 2026-06-21 HIPAA: set to Yes
- 2026-06-21 GDPR: set to Yes
- 2026-06-21 ISO 27001: set to Yes
- 2026-06-21 PCI DSS: set to Yes
- 2026-06-21 SLA Published: set to No
- 2026-06-21 Data Retention Policy URL: set to https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-api/resources/zero-retention-mode
- 2026-06-21 Documented Rate Limits: set to Concurrency limits by plan: Free=4, Starter=6, Creator=10, Pro=20, Scale=30, Bu…
- 2026-06-21 Rate Limit Requests: set to 4
- 2026-06-21 Rate Limit Window: set to concurrent calls
- 2026-06-21 Known Restrictions: set to LLM costs are currently absorbed by ElevenLabs but will eventually be passed on…
- 2026-06-21 Auth Methods: set to api_key
- 2026-06-21 Auth Docs URL: set to https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/authentication
- 2026-06-21 API Style: set to websocket
- 2026-06-21 Base URL: set to https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1
- 2026-06-21 API Version: set to v1
- 2026-06-21 Versioning Scheme: set to url
- 2026-06-21 Stability: set to ga
- 2026-06-21 Deprecation Policy URL: set to https://elevenlabs.io/docs/developers/best-practices/breaking-changes-policy
- 2026-06-21 MCP URL: set to https://github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-mcp
- 2026-06-21 Quickstart URL: set to https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/quickstart
- 2026-06-21 Idempotency Supported: set to No
- 2026-06-21 Error Format: set to vendor-specific JSON with top-level "detail" object containing type, code, mess…
- 2026-06-21 Webhook Signing: set to hmac
- 2026-06-21 Webhook Events URL: set to https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-api/resources/webhooks
- 2026-06-21 Requires Verification: set to No
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