curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/models' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

# GET /v1/models (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Get Models

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/models' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Response (200 OK)
[{"can_be_finetuned":true,"can_do_text_to_speech":true}]

---
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GET

/v1/models

ElevenLabs API

Get Models

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03 · upstream hash matched

Actions

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Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/models' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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Parameters

No parameters.

Response 200 OK

[
  {
    "can_be_finetuned": true,
    "can_do_text_to_speech": true,
    "can_do_voice_conversion": true,
    "can_use_speaker_boost": true,
    "can_use_style": true,
    "concurrency_group": "standard_eleven_multilingual_v2",
    "description": "Our state of the art multilingual speech synthesis model, able to generate life-like speech in 29 languages.",
    "languages": [
      {
        "language_id": "en",
        "name": "English"
      }
    ],
    "max_characters_request_free_user": 2500,
    "max_characters_request_subscribed_user": 5000,
    "maximum_text_length_per_request": 1000000,
    "model_id": "eleven_multilingual_v2",
    "model_rates": {
      "character_cost_multiplier": 1,
      "cost_discount_multiplier": 1
    },
    "name": "Eleven Multilingual v2",
    "requires_alpha_access": false,
    "serves_pro_voices": false,
    "token_cost_factor": 1
  }
]