TTS Price Check: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at $32.98/1M chars, 3x Cheaper Than Eleven v3
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-23
Artificial Analysis expanded its Text to Speech model comparison with quality, speed, and pricing data, plus a new Pronunciation Robustness benchmark where human reviewers grade how correctly models pronounce tricky English spans (proper nouns, homographs, etc.).
Key pricing:
- Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: $32.98/1M characters
- Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: $22.07/1M characters
- Both pricier than Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS ($18.31) and xAI TTS ($15), but far below Eleven v3 at $100/1M characters
The Speech Arena Elo leaderboard and pronunciation robustness rankings are updated for side-by-side model selection.
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