ElevenLabs Chimera makes 30s talking videos
ElevenLabs launched Chimera on the 21st of October 2026 in its ElevenCreative app. It turns a picture and a written line into a talking video of 4 to 30 seconds, on paid plans from 6 dollars a month.
ElevenLabs' Chimera: pictures that talkElevenLabs launched Chimera on the 21st of October 2026, a tool that turns a picture and a written line into a talking video. The company announced it on X through ElevenCreative, its app for making voices and videos.
Chimera joins two AI models in one step, the post says. ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 makes the voice, and Seedance 2.5 moves the face to match it.
How Chimera works: a picture, a line and a voice
In ElevenCreative, you upload or create a character, write their line and pick or design a voice, the post says.
Tags in the text, such as [whispers], [laughs] and [yells], set the timing and mood of each word, ElevenLabs wrote.
"Eleven v4 puts the emotion in the voice. Seedance 2.5 carries it onto the face," the post says.
Seedance 2.5 is a video model made by ByteDance
Seedance 2.5 is a video model made by ByteDance, TechNode reported on the 31st of July 2026. A video model is a program that makes moving pictures from words or images.
Eleven v4 is ElevenLabs' voice model, released on the 28th of September 2026, its blog says.
Below we break down the limits and the cost
The speech in each video runs from 4 to 30 seconds, Chimera's page in the app shows. So a 2 minute talk needs at least 4 videos, by our arithmetic.
The video can be tall for phones, square or wide, the page shows. Its sharpness can be 480p, 720p or 1080p, where a bigger number means a clearer picture.
ElevenLabs has published no price for Chimera. The page shows the cost only after you add speech.
Video needs a paid plan, from 6 dollars a month
Video making is only on paid plans, ElevenLabs' help pages say. Templates like Chimera use the plan's credits, the units that pay for each job.
Paid plans start at 6 dollars a month for Starter, ElevenLabs' price page shows. Creator costs 22 dollars and Pro 99 dollars a month.
Key facts
Launched by ElevenLabs on the 21st of October 2026.
Turns a picture and a written line into a talking video.
Uses ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 and ByteDance's Seedance 2.5.
Speech from 4 to 30 seconds per video.
No published price. Video needs a paid plan, from 6 dollars a month.