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Scribe v2 Realtime

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Scribe v2 Realtime is a closed-weights speech-to-text model from ElevenLabs, released November 2025. Licence: proprietary.

Catalogue identity notes

ElevenLabs' streaming STT model, API model_id scribe_v2_realtime (models docs), announced in the ElevenLabs blog 'Introducing Scribe v2 Realtime' published Nov 11, 2025. Distinct from the batch model elevenlabs-scribe-v2 (scribe_v2).

55.2±3.3#70 of 162 speech-to-text modelsfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the Open ASR English short-form WER (March 2026) comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The speech-to-text models ranked either side of Scribe v2 Realtime, out of 176 with a score, then more from ElevenLabs.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
79LiteWhisper large-v3 Efficient-Speech (LiteASR)55±3local~3.7GB2025-02
80Fun-ASR-Nano-2512 Alibaba (FunAudioLLM)55±3local~0.9GB2025-12
81Scribe v2 Realtime ElevenLabs55±3api $0.0065/audio min2025-11
82LiteWhisper large-v3-acc Efficient-Speech (LiteASR)55±3local~3.9GB2025-02
83Omnilingual ASR CTC 3B v2 Meta55±3local~7.9GB2025-12
more from ElevenLabs
12Scribe v2 ElevenLabs66±1api $0.0037/audio min2026-01
30Scribe v1 ElevenLabs61±2comparison only2025-02

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$ what it's good at

other tests1 not in a task · 96% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Pipecat STT Benchmark · pooled semantic WER (1000 smart-turn samples, Sonnet 5.5 judge)3.1% ✎▃·▃▅·▅▅·▃▅██ beats 2/16avg 4.8%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 96%typical

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · $0.0065/audio min · elevenlabs.io ↗ · price sourceUSD per input audio minute: ElevenLabs API pricing lists 'Scribe v2 Realtime Speech to Text $0.39 Price per hour' (÷60), same rate on every tier shown. Product: ElevenAPI realtime speech to text. API model: scribe_v2_realtime. Price basis: published list rate, per-hour to per-minute scaling only. Exclusions: keyterm prompting ($0.08/hr) and transcript editing add-ons, subscription fees. Currency: USD. ElevenLabs official API pricing page, observed 2026-10-09.

$ how the score was worked out · Pipecat STT Benchmark · seman… 96%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 96%BSD-2-Clause
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 4%
weighted average= 55.2

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