Eleven v4 tops Artificial Analysis TTS leaderboard at 1319 Elo, priced $80/1M chars vs Gemini Flash TTS at $16.5
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-28
Artificial Analysis updated its Text-to-Speech leaderboard and Speech Arena for blind-voted Elo rankings of TTS models.
Key numbers: ElevenLabs Eleven v4 leads at 1319 Elo, generating 73.4 chars/sec at $80/1M characters. Cartesia Sonic 3.6 (1276) and Google Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (1267, just $16.5/1M chars) follow, with Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus at #4. Pricing spans a 15x range — SpeechifyAI Simba 3.2 costs $6.6/1M chars while MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD runs $100.
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