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ElevenLabs Agents

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Try itExperimental

See what an agent can do with ElevenLabs Agents before you ever sign up. Pick a story: recorded sessions replay real probe-harness transcripts; sandboxed self-drive sessions are designed and gated (docs/TRY-IT.md).

$npx -y @elevenlabs/cli --versionrecorded session — replayed, not live
recorded 2026-09-05 · exit 0 · captured verbatim by our probe harness, secrets redacted

Verified integrations

Connections to other tracked products — hover a chip for the verbatim evidence quote behind it.

By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent buildingevidence →

Building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flow

46.9/100

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

44.4/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

13.5/100

Compliance trust — stories about compliance trust in this arenaCompliance trustevidence →

Stories about compliance trust in this arena

27.0/100

Deployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaDeployment scaleevidence →

Stories about deployment scale in this arena

0.0/100

Latency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntakingevidence →

Stories about latency turntaking in this arena

20.0/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

8.4/100

Pricing plans — plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocksPricing plansevidence →

Plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocks

0.0/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

8.0/100

Telephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephonyevidence →

Stories about telephony in this arena

19.2/100

Testing analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analyticsevidence →

Stories about testing analytics in this arena

56.6/100

Tools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function callingevidence →

Stories about tools function calling in this arena

63.1/100

Transcription recording — stories about transcription recording in this arenaTranscription recordingevidence →

Stories about transcription recording in this arena

27.0/100

Voices tts — stories about voices tts in this arenaVoices ttsevidence →

Stories about voices tts in this arena

15.0/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 61/61 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full9/10T

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full9/10T

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full8/10C

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3partial5/10T

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full9/10T

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full9/10T

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial6/10T

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial5/10C

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10T

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10C

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1partial4/10C

Build a working phone voice agent — prompt, voice, and phone number — and take my first live call within an hour C

Build

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building3partial7/10C

My agent can call external APIs and custom functions mid-conversation and speak the result without awkward dead air C

Tools

developerTools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function calling3full7/10C

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3partial6/10C

My coding agent can provision a complete voice agent end to end — create the agent, attach a number, and place a call — through the API, CLI, or MCP without touching the dashboard C

Agent ops

ai-native userAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building3partial6/10T

Provision phone numbers and run both inbound and outbound calls through the platform's API C

Numbers

developerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony3partial6/10C

Rely on the agent to handle interruptions (barge-in) gracefully — stopping speech, updating context, and recovering the turn C

Turn taking

developerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking3partial6/10C

See documented end-to-end voice latency numbers or tuning guidance backing the platform's speed claims C

Latency

platform-engineerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking3partial4/10C

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3none0/10

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3none0/10

Self-host the voice agent runtime from open-source code on my own infrastructure C

Self host

platform-engineerDeployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaDeployment scale3none0/10

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3noneuntestednone yet

Ground the agent on my documents with a built-in knowledge base or RAG so it answers from my content C

Personalization

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2full8/10C

Inject dynamic variables and per-caller context at call time so each conversation is personalized C

Personalization

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2full8/10C

My voice agent can plug in MCP servers as tool sources so one integration grants it whole toolsets mid-call C

Tools

ai-native userTools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function calling2full8/10C

Test agents with simulated conversations or evals before putting them on real phone calls C

Testing

developerTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics2full8/10C

Connect my own carrier or PBX via SIP trunking (or import Twilio/Telnyx numbers) instead of being locked to bundled telephony C

Sip

platform-engineerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony2partial7/10C

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2partial7/10T

The platform's AI reviews my calls for me — scoring quality, flagging failures, and analyzing resolution automatically C

Analytics

ai-native userTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics2full7/10C

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2partial6/10C

Design multi-step conversation flows in a visual builder with branching, states, and handoffs without writing code C

Build

founderAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2partial6/10C

Extract structured data from every call — outcomes, entities, dispositions — delivered via API or webhook after the call C

Post call

developerTools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function calling2partial6/10C

See call analytics — success rates, durations, outcomes, sentiment — in dashboards without building my own C

Analytics

founderTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics2partial6/10C

Choose from a broad voice library or plug in multiple TTS providers to get the voice I want C

Voices

developerVoices tts — stories about voices tts in this arenaVoices tts2partial5/10C

Retrieve full call recordings and transcripts programmatically for every call C

Recording

platform-engineerTranscription recording — stories about transcription recording in this arenaTranscription recording2partial5/10C

Run regulated workloads with HIPAA/BAA support, SOC 2, and data-residency options C

Compliance

platform-engineerCompliance trust — stories about compliance trust in this arenaCompliance trust2partial5/10C

Get accurate real-time transcription with control over the STT provider, language models, or key terms C

Transcription

developerTranscription recording — stories about transcription recording in this arenaTranscription recording2partial4/10C

Meet call-recording consent and disclosure obligations with per-call recording controls and configurable data retention C

Compliance

founderCompliance trust — stories about compliance trust in this arenaCompliance trust2partial4/10C

Run conversations in multiple languages, including detecting and switching language mid-call C

Build

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2partial4/10C

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2none0/10

Clone a custom brand voice and use it for my agents, with a documented consent process C

Voices

founderVoices tts — stories about voices tts in this arenaVoices tts2none0/10

Run batch outbound call campaigns with scheduling and throughput controls C

Campaigns

founderTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony2none0/10

Use model-based end-of-turn detection beyond simple VAD silence timeouts so the agent doesn't talk over slow speakers C

Turn taking

developerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking2none0/10

Escalate a live call to a human with warm or blind transfer, passing context along C

Call control

developerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony2noneuntestednone yet

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2noneuntestednone yet

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2noneuntestednone yet

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2noneuntestednone yet

See documented concurrency limits and scale to many simultaneous calls without manual capacity begging C

Scale

platform-engineerDeployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaDeployment scale2noneuntestednone yet

See published per-minute or usage pricing and estimate cost per call before committing G

Pricing

founderPricing plans — plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocksPricing plans2noneuntestednone yet

The platform's own AI helps me author agents — generating or improving prompts, flows, and test cases from a description C

Agent ops

ai-native userAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building1partial5/10T

Monitor live calls in production and get alerts when agents misbehave or error rates spike C

Monitoring

platform-engineerTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics1partial4/10C

Enable noise suppression or audio filtering so the agent stays coherent on noisy real-world calls C

Turn taking

developerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking1none0/10

My agent can send DTMF keypresses, navigate IVR menus, and detect or leave voicemail C

Call control

developerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony1none0/10

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1noneuntestednone yet

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 49 stories with headroom

What would move ElevenLabs Agents’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesExport all of my data in open formats and leave

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Missing: any documented export API/CLI command, supported open export formats (e.g., JSON/CSV), and confirmation of full data portability/account closure process.

  2. Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesSelf-host the core product

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Missing: any open-source repo or self-hosted deployment package, docs describing running the core service on one's own infrastructure, independent confirmation of self-hosting.

  3. Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrevent my data from being used to train AI models

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Missing: explicit training-data opt-out policy or setting, terms-of-service language on model training use, any statement distinguishing enterprise vs free-tier data usage for training.

  4. Deployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaSelf-host the voice agent runtime from open-source code on my own infrastructure

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    ElevenLabs Agents is entirely a managed/hosted service — the CLI and MCP server are clients/interfaces to ElevenLabs' cloud infrastructure, not open-source runtime code that can be deployed on a platform-engineer's own servers.

  5. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productIssue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    Missing: any docs on API key permission scopes, workspace role-based tokens, or restricted-credential issuance for agents.

  6. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productSubscribe to events via webhooks

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    The evidence describes 'webhook tools' that let an agent make outbound calls to external endpoints during a conversation (docs-14, docs-29, docs-31), which is the opposite of subscribing to platform-emitted events via webhooks.

  7. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productExplore an interactive API reference with runnable examples

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    The evidence pack contains extensive markdown documentation for ElevenLabs Agents (quickstart, customization, tools, etc.) but nothing describes an interactive API reference page with runnable/'try it' examples — no mention of a Swagger/OpenAPI explorer, live code sandbox, or embedded runnable snippets.

  8. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDownload a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    The evidence pack documents the API, CLI, dashboard, and hosted MCP server for ElevenLabs Agents, but nowhere mentions a downloadable OpenAPI/Swagger spec or machine-readable schema for the API.

Showing the top 8 of 49 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map4 surfaces · 38 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

docs38 stories

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$npx -y @elevenlabs/cli --versionreproduced
$ npx -y @elevenlabs/cli --version
\|/elevenlabs 1.1.0
\
proves: Use an official CLIrecorded 2026-09-05
$curl -si -X POST https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>'reproduced
$ curl -si -X POST https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>'
HTTP/2 401

date: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:43:45 GMT

server: uvicorn

www-authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata="https://api.us.elevenlabs.io/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"

content-length: 60

content-type: application/json

vary: Accept-Language, Accept-Encoding

access-control-allow-origin: *

access-control-allow-headers: *

access-control-allow-methods: POST, PATCH, OPTIONS, DELETE, GET, PUT

access-control-max-age: 600

strict-transport-security: max-age=1800;

x-trace-id: de448e74020f29612dc12866b1dd5e41

x-region: us-central1

via: 1.1 google

alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000

{"detail":"OAuth bearer [redacted] required for the hosted MCP."}

Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence

4 of 20 testable claims verified · 0 contradictedintegrity 20/100

33 distinct capability claims found in ElevenLabs Agents’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.

4

Verified

16

Unverified

0

Contradicted

18

Undersold

Verified (8)
Unverified (23)
Undersold (18)
Claims outside our story set (6)

Real capability claims found in ElevenLabs Agents’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.

  • Assistant can be embedded into a website or app for real-time customer support

    source ↗
  • Custom authentication can be implemented to protect agent access

    source ↗
  • Agent can switch between different voices mid-conversation for multi-character storytelling or language tutoring

    source ↗
  • Speech speed can be adjusted between 0.7x and 1.2x

    source ↗
  • Max conversation duration setting caps how long a call can remain active (default 10 minutes)

    source ↗
  • Supports choosing from supported LLMs or bringing your own custom model

    source ↗
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Pricing signals

  • $0.2per minutepay-as-you-goExtra-minute overage rate for TTS usage beyond the Starter plan's included minutes (entry-paid tier's PAYG rate); other tiers show ~$0.36 (Free), ~$0.18 (Creator), ~$0.17 (Pro/Scale/Business).source ↗as of 2026-09-07
  • $6per month (entry plan)entry planCheapest paid monthly plan (Starter) shown on the pricing page; includes 30k credits/month.source ↗as of 2026-09-07

Extracted verbatim from the vendor’s own pricing page — hover a figure for the exact quote.

Business model

free-tiersubscription-flatusage-basedenterprise-custom

Credit-based subscription tiers (Free through Business) where agent conversations consume per-minute credits; Enterprise adds custom pricing, BAAs, and data residency.

pricing ↗

Score trend

How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

PA Scoretracked since Sep 5 '26 — no movement recorded yet
Agent-readytracked since Sep 5 '26 — no movement recorded yet

Try Experimental

Run it in the microterminal →

Recorded agent sessions — and a live MCP handshake where the vendor ships one.

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Data

⚿ auth1 auth-gated probe

Agent surface uptime MCP 100% · llms.txt 100% (30d, checked every 6h since Sep 8 '26)