Cartesia's Sonic 3.6 tops both speech arena leaderboards, nearly 3x faster than Eleven v3
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-08-18
Cartesia's latest TTS model Sonic 3.6 takes #1 on both the Provider Voice and Controlled Voice Artificial Analysis Speech Arena leaderboards, surpassing Speechify's Simba 3.2 and Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus.
- Rankings: #1 on Controlled Voice with Elo 1144 (1,339 appearances), ahead of its own Sonic 3.5 (1099) and ElevenLabs' Eleven v3 (1060); #1 on Provider Voice at 1286, beating Simba 3.2 (1238) and Qwen (1237)
- Pricing: $49 per 1M characters — 5x Simba 3.2 ($10), nearly 2x Qwen ($27.59), but half of Eleven v3 ($100)
- Speed: 136.1 chars/sec generation vs 46.7 for Eleven v3 and 24.2 for Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
- Supports 40+ languages, with voters citing natural speech and adaptive pacing
Related event: Cartesia Sonic 3.6 Tops TTS Leaderboards at Nearly 3x Speed(3 posts)→
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