ElevenAgents
Also known as: ElevenLabs, ElevenLabs Conversational AI, ElevenLabs Agents, Conversational AI
ElevenAgents is a voice-first agent platform for building, testing and running multimodal agents across telephony, web, WhatsApp and SMS, with a customer-chosen LLM, a managed RAG knowledge base and OpenTelemetry tracing.
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company that has become a kind of audio layer for the internet, generating lifelike speech and powering voice-based AI agents. Founded in 2022 and launched the following year with one of the first convincingly human AI voice models, it built its reputation on text-to-speech that captures emotion, pacing, and nuance rather than sounding robotic, and has since expanded into a full audio stack used by creators, businesses, and developers.
Its text-to-speech models span a range of needs, from a highly expressive model that responds to inline cues like laughter or whispering for narration and dramatic work, to ultra-low-latency models built for real-time conversation. Around this sit a large library of ready-made voices, voice cloning that can recreate a person's voice from a short sample, voice design from a text prompt, speech-to-speech voice changing, and dubbing that re-voices content across many languages while preserving timing and delivery. A speech-to-text model handles accurate transcription with speaker labels and word-level timestamps.
For agentic use, ElevenLabs offers a conversational AI platform, ElevenAgents, that combines speech recognition, a language model, and its own speech synthesis into a single low-latency stack for building, deploying, and monitoring voice and chat agents. Because the platform is designed for production, it includes the testing, monitoring, and reliability features teams need to run agents at scale, and its low-latency voices are also embedded inside many other companies' voice products and contact-center systems.
Everything is accessible through an API with Python and TypeScript SDKs and streaming endpoints, alongside a studio editor for long-form audio, music generation, and a reader app, all spanning dozens of languages. For enterprises, ElevenLabs carries SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, GDPR, and HIPAA-eligible posture, with and zero-retention options for sensitive workloads. The company is also vocal about responsible use, monitoring misuse of its voice technology. In practice, ElevenLabs is both a creative tool for generating speech, music, and dubbing, and the underlying voice infrastructure that lets conversational agents sound human.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://elevenlabs.io/agents
Category
Customer support agent
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Target customers
Deployment options
In practice
You're building a voice agent and the synthetic voice sounds flat and laggy. ElevenLabs supplies ultra-low-latency, expressive speech, and its ElevenAgents platform bundles speech recognition, a model, and that voice into one stack you can deploy and monitor.
You want to localize a video into a dozen languages without re-hiring voice talent. ElevenLabs dubs the content across languages while keeping the timing and the original speaker's delivery, so it still sounds like the same performer.
Your audiobook or ad needs narration that conveys real emotion. ElevenLabs' expressive model reads the script with controllable pacing and inline cues for things like whispering or laughter, in a cloned or library voice you choose.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Agentic Index coverage score
12.5 / 14 capabilities · 89%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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Documented integrations span helpdesk (Zendesk, Freshdesk, Intercom), CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot), ITSM (ServiceNow, Jira), calendar (Cal.com, Calendly, Google Calendar), storage, messaging (Slack, Telegram), search (Exa, Tavily) and CCaaS (Genesys, Five9), with client tools, webhook tools, code tools and MCP tools for anything else. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/overviewread 2026-09-05 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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Multi-step conversation workflows are built in a visual workflow builder, with free-form and structured Procedures carrying their own create, compile and draft endpoints, agent transfer between agents, and agent branches that support merge and rebase before deployment. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/agent-workflowsread 2026-09-05 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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The knowledge base is a maintained retrieval structure the platform builds and holds: documents ingested from file, text or URL, website crawl jobs, folders, document refresh, and RAG indexes with their own compute, batch compute, retrieve and delete endpoints plus chunk-level inspection and semantic search. It persists and stays queryable rather than being assembled per conversation. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/knowledge-base/ragread 2026-09-05 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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MCP servers carry an approval policy with endpoints to set the policy and to create or delete per-tool approvals, so the customer decides which actions the agent may take unattended and which are held for sign-off, alongside a documented guardrails surface that blocks out-of-scope requests before a response is sent and transfer tools for handing to a person. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/best-practices/guardrailsread 2026-09-05 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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ElevenLabs publishes SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, PCI DSS Level 1, HIPAA with a Business Associate Agreement, AIUC-1, GDPR and TXRAMP Level 2 through a live trust center, alongside customer-facing controls including SSO, granular workspace access permissions, a workspace secrets store, configurable retention, conversation history redaction and Zero Retention Mode. Sourcecompliance.elevenlabs.ioread 2026-09-05 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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OpenTelemetry traces export the agent's execution to the customer's own observability stack, with real-time monitoring, a tool-executions endpoint, conversation analysis with success evaluation and sentiment, keyword and semantic transcript search, and per-conversation audio and detail retrieval. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/opentelemetry-tracesread 2026-09-05 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
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State is documented within a conversation through the update-state system tool, with dynamic variables and overrides injected per conversation by the customer. What persists beyond the session is conversation history keyed to an external user id, which is the stored business record governed by retention policy rather than a memory layer the agent recalls from, and no cross-session memory with a stated scope and lifetime is documented. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/personalizationread 2026-09-05 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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Data residency is offered through isolated environments the customer selects, with storage locations in the United States, the European Union, India and Singapore, alongside VPC and on-premises options. Those isolated environments come only with the Enterprise plan. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/overview/administration/data-residencyread 2026-09-05 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Full |
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ElevenAgents offers a workflow template library plus named role-specific agents the customer clones as units, including Order Support, Triage Agent, Front Desk Agent and FAQ Agent, and use-case starters for appointment scheduling, invoice management, purchase assistance and account support, all browsable and selectable from the app. Sourceelevenlabs.io/agent-templatesread 2026-09-05 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Agents run on inbound and outbound telephony over SIP trunking, Twilio, Vonage, Telnyx, Plivo, Exotel and Bandwidth, CCaaS via Genesys and Five9, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp with outbound templates, SMS, a web widget, mobile SDKs, programmatic batch calling and a real-time event subscription API. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/integrate/overviewread 2026-09-05 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Full |
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The customer selects the language model that powers the agent from a supported list, or brings their own through documented custom LLM integrations with Cloudflare, Groq, SambaNova and Together AI, with LLM cascading for fallback and a list-LLMs endpoint. The platform is explicitly model-agnostic and supplies only the speech and turn-taking models itself. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/llmread 2026-09-05 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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ElevenAgents offers a full REST and WebSocket API for the platform itself covering agents, conversations, tools, knowledge base, tests, phone numbers and workspace settings, native SDKs for Python, JavaScript, React, React Native, Swift and Kotlin, post-call webhooks, a CLI for managing agents as code, and a hosted MCP server that lets an external assistant create and update agents. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/api-reference/introductionread 2026-09-05 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Full |
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ElevenAgents ships a customer-facing test suite: automated tests with folders, invocations and a run-tests endpoint, conversation simulation including a streaming variant, Experiments for A/B testing configuration changes against live traffic, agent versioning, and a run-evaluation endpoint returning success criteria per conversation, all run against the customer's own agent. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/agent-testingread 2026-09-05 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Not documented |
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The agent acts only through documented programmatic surfaces: client tools, webhook tools, code tools, MCP servers and system tools for call control. No browser control, virtual desktop or operation of software lacking a programmatic interface appears anywhere in the documentation. Sourceelevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/customization/toolsread 2026-09-05 |
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Recent platform changes
ElevenLabs released Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, a new text to speech family it trained itself, with more expressive speech and better voice cloning across more than 90 languages. The Turbo model is the real time version for agents, with a stated median latency of about 100 ms, and both are available in ElevenAgents now.
Bears on: Agent capability
View sourceElevenAgents added enable_parallel_tool_calls, enabled by default, so supported models can run multiple tools in one turn. The release also added Slack alerts and a paginated phone number search endpoint. Conversation filters no longer accept the missing operator and instead use an empty value; the knowledge base crawl max_depth parameter is deprecated and ignored.
Bears on: Workflow orchestration
View sourceElevenLabs released an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for its platform. This update provides a standardized framework for conversational agents to interface with external data sources and enterprise tools.
Bears on: MCP / tool calling / API
View sourcePricing
Free tier (15 agent minutes/mo); paid from $6/mo Starter up to $990/mo Business; overage $0.08/min; Enterprise custom
hybrid (subscription tiers with included agent minutes, then per minute overage)
Included quota
Free: 15 agent minutes, 4 concurrent, no commercial license. Starter ($6): 75 min, 6 concurrent. Creator ($22): 275 min, 10 concurrent. Pro ($99): 1,238 min, 20 concurrent. Scale ($299): 3,738 min, 30 concurrent. Business ($990): 12,375 min, 40 concurrent. Enterprise: custom.
What is public
All tier prices, included agent minutes and concurrency, the $0.08/min overage, and the $0.16 burst rate are public. Enterprise is custom.
Billing mechanics
ElevenAgents plans bill by call minutes, not the shared character credit pool. Each tier includes a bundle of agent minutes and a concurrency limit; beyond the bundle, minutes cost $0.08 each, rising to $0.16 when you exceed concurrency. Text messages are about $0.003 each. The reasoning model and telephony are passed through and billed separately. Silence over 10 seconds is discounted 95%. Annual billing saves about 17%.
Cost watchouts
The reasoning model and telephony provider are billed separately and are not in the plan price, so effective cost per minute runs above $0.08. Conversation duration bills on connection time including silence (discounted after 10 seconds), and the free tier has no commercial license.
Variable cost rationale
Agent usage bills by call minute against a plan bundle, then per minute overage, and the underlying language model and telephony are passed through separately, so effective cost scales with conversation volume and model choice.
Additional watchouts
Budget for the separately billed model and telephony on top of the plan and $0.08 overage, and watch concurrency limits that trigger the doubled $0.16 burst rate during spikes.
Overage / add-ons
Beyond the included minutes, agent time bills at $0.08/min, or $0.16/min when you exceed your plan's concurrency limit. LLM and telephony are billed separately on top.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Free / trial
Free tier: 15 agent minutes/mo, 4 concurrent calls, no commercial license
Lowest paid plan
Starter $6/mo (75 agent minutes)
Commercial notes
ElevenLabs (founded 2022, New York and London) is best known for high fidelity voice, and ElevenAgents is its conversational AI platform. RAG is built in and you can bring your own model. Enterprise adds custom SLAs, SSO, HIPAA with BAA, and volume discounts.
Key ambiguities
The pass through model and telephony costs depend on model and carrier choice, so total per minute cost is configuration dependent even though ElevenLabs' own rates are exact.
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