Speechify's Simba 3.5 tops voice arena at $6.58/1M chars, 6x cheaper than Eleven v4
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-11-14
Artificial Analysis's Controlled Voice Arena has Speechify's Simba 3.5 at #1, statistically level with HeyGen Voice and ahead of Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus (1176). In Provider Voice it ranks #5, level with Cartesia's Sonic 3.6. It runs at 139.6 chars/sec at $6.58 per 1M characters — the cheapest on the price chart — versus Eleven v4 Turbo's 105.3 chars/sec at $40, making it roughly 6x cheaper and faster.
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