ElevenLabs Sound Effects V3 Text-to-SFX generates sound effects, ambience, and multi-part audio scenes from text descriptions for video, games, ads, and sound design workflows. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
Idle
$0.002per run·~500 / $1
A heavy antique door slowly creaks open, followed by two crisp footsteps on a wooden floor. A small brass bell rings brightly overhead, its delicate resonance fading into the quiet room. Clear sequential sounds, realistic textures, no speech or music.
ElevenLabs Sound Effects V3 generates sound effects and ambient audio from text descriptions. Describe a single sound, an environment, or a sequence of events to create audio for videos, games, advertising, and other creative projects.
0.5 to 30 seconds.| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| prompt | Yes | Describe the desired sound, environment, and sequence of events. |
| duration | No | Requested duration from 0.5 to 30 seconds. Default: 5. |
| loop | No | Generate a sound effect designed to loop smoothly. Default: false. |
| prompt_influence | No | Controls how closely the result follows the prompt, from 0 to 1. Default: 0.3. |
0.5 to 30 seconds.prompt_influence when needed.$0.002 per billed second.
| Duration | Price |
|---|---|
| 5s | $0.01 |
| 10s | $0.02 |
| 30s | $0.06 |
The requested duration is rounded up to the next whole second for billing. Decimal durations are supported; for example, a 1.5-second request is billed as 2 seconds ($0.004).
loop and prompt_influence do not add separate charges.
loop=true when generating repeating ambience or background effects.prompt_influence when you need stronger or looser adherence to the description.duration supports 0.5–30 seconds and defaults to 5.loop defaults to false.prompt_influence defaults to 0.3.Grab a WaveSpeedAI API key, then call POST https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/elevenlabs/sound-effects-v3 with your input as JSON. The endpoint returns a prediction id. Start polling the result endpoint around every 2 seconds, increase the interval for long-running tasks, and stop on any terminal status. On completed, read output values from data.outputs. Examples for Sound Effects v3 below.
set -euo pipefail
: "${WAVESPEED_API_KEY:?Set WAVESPEED_API_KEY}"
REQUEST_BODY=$(cat <<'JSON'
{
"prompt": "A cinematic shot of a city at sunset, soft golden light",
"duration": 5,
"loop": false,
"prompt_influence": 0.3
}
JSON
)
# 1. Submit the prediction.
SUBMIT_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
-X POST "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/elevenlabs/sound-effects-v3" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY" \
-d "$REQUEST_BODY")
TASK=$(printf '%s' "$SUBMIT_RESPONSE" | jq 'if has("data") then .data else . end')
PREDICTION_ID=$(printf '%s' "$TASK" | jq -r '.id')
if [ -z "$PREDICTION_ID" ] || [ "$PREDICTION_ID" = "null" ]; then
printf 'Submission response did not contain a prediction id
' >&2
exit 1
fi
RESULT_URL="https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/$PREDICTION_ID/result"
# 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while true; do
RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body "$RESULT_URL" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY")
RESULT=$(printf '%s' "$RESPONSE" | jq 'if has("data") then .data else . end')
STATUS=$(printf '%s' "$RESULT" | jq -r '.status')
case "$STATUS" in
completed) printf '%s\n' "$RESULT" | jq '.outputs'; break ;;
failed|cancelled|timeout|deleted) printf '%s\n' "$RESULT" | jq . >&2; exit 1 ;;
*) sleep 2 ;;
esac
doneconst submitUrl = "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/elevenlabs/sound-effects-v3";
const apiKey = process.env.WAVESPEED_API_KEY;
if (!apiKey) throw new Error('Set WAVESPEED_API_KEY');
async function requestJson(url, options = {}) {
const response = await fetch(url, options);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(await response.text());
return response.json();
}
// 1. Submit the prediction.
const body = await requestJson(submitUrl, {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"prompt": "A cinematic shot of a city at sunset, soft golden light",
"duration": 5,
"loop": false,
"prompt_influence": 0.3
}),
});
const task = body.data ?? body;
if (!task.id) throw new Error("Submission response did not contain a prediction id");
const resultUrl = `https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/${task.id}/result`;
// 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while (true) {
const resultBody = await requestJson(resultUrl, {
headers: { "Authorization": `Bearer ${apiKey}` },
});
const result = resultBody.data ?? resultBody;
if (result.status === "completed") {
console.log(result.outputs);
break;
}
if (["failed", "cancelled", "timeout", "deleted"].includes(result.status)) throw new Error(JSON.stringify(result));
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 2000));
}import json
import os
import time
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
api_key = os.environ["WAVESPEED_API_KEY"]
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
payload = {
"prompt": "A cinematic shot of a city at sunset, soft golden light",
"duration": 5,
"loop": False,
"prompt_influence": 0.3
}
def request_json(url, data=None):
request = Request(url, data=data, headers=headers, method="POST" if data else "GET")
with urlopen(request) as response:
return json.load(response)
# 1. Submit the prediction.
body = request_json("https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/elevenlabs/sound-effects-v3", json.dumps(payload).encode())
task = body.get("data", body)
if not task.get("id"):
raise RuntimeError("Submission response did not contain a prediction id")
result_url = f"https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/{task['id']}/result"
# 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while True:
result_body = request_json(result_url)
result = result_body.get("data", result_body)
status = result.get("status")
if status == "completed":
print(result.get("outputs", []))
break
if status in {"failed", "cancelled", "timeout", "deleted"}:
raise RuntimeError(result)
time.sleep(2)Sound Effects v3 is a ElevenLabs model for sound effect generation, exposed as a REST API on WaveSpeedAI. ElevenLabs Sound Effects V3 Text-to-SFX generates sound effects, ambience, and multi-part audio scenes from text descriptions for video, games, ads, and sound design workflows. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing. You can call it programmatically or try it from the playground above.
POST your input parameters to the model's REST endpoint (shown in the API tab of this playground) with your WaveSpeedAI API key in the Authorization header. Submission returns a prediction ID. Poll the result endpoint starting around every 2 seconds, increase the interval for long-running tasks, and stop on any terminal status. The playground generates Python, JavaScript, and cURL examples for submitting requests and polling results. Full request/response shape is documented at https://wavespeed.ai/docs/docs-api/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-sound-effects-v3.
Sound Effects v3 starts at $0.002 per run or per second. That figure is the base price — the final charge scales with the parameters you set in the form (output size, length, count, references, or whatever knobs this model exposes), so a higher-quality or larger output costs more than a minimal one. The exact cost for your current input is shown live next to the Generate button before you submit, and the actual per-call charge is recorded on the prediction afterwards.
Key inputs: `prompt`, `duration`, `loop`, `prompt_influence`. The full JSON schema (types, defaults, allowed values) is rendered above the Generate button and mirrored in the API reference at https://wavespeed.ai/docs/docs-api/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-sound-effects-v3.
Sign up for a free WaveSpeedAI account to claim starter credits, copy your API key from /accesskey, then call the endpoint shown in the API tab of the playground. The playground also auto-generates a code sample in Python, JavaScript, or cURL for the parameters you've set.
Commercial usage rights depend on the model's license, set by its provider (ElevenLabs). Check the provider's applicable terms and WaveSpeedAI's Terms of Service before commercial use.