Transcribe audio
ElevenLabs Scribe
Speech-to-text API that turns audio and video files or live streams into transcripts with timestamps and speaker labels.
Rate limits
Limits are on concurrent requests, by plan.
| Plan | Speech to text concurrency | Realtime speech to text concurrency |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 8 | 6 |
| Starter | 12 | 9 |
| Creator | 20 | 15 |
| Pro | 40 | 30 |
| Scale | 60 | 45 |
| Business | 60 | 45 |
| Enterprise | Elevated | Elevated |
Source7Speech to text requests help article
Other limits
- Max duration
- 10 hours per file (standard mode)2
- Max duration (other page)
- 1 hour (multichannel mode)2
- Minimum audio length
- 100 ms5
- Keyterms
- Up to 1000 keyterms, 50 characters each, 5 words each5
- Speakers
- Up to 325
- Channels
- Up to 55
- Concurrency headers
- Response headers
current-concurrent-requestsandmaximum-concurrent-requests9
Read from ElevenLabs’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/transcribe-audio/elevenlabs-scribe.md