Simba 3.5 tops TTS value: 139.6 chars/sec at $6.58 per 1M characters
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-11-14
Artificial Analysis updated its Text-to-Speech leaderboards, alongside a Speech Arena for voting and a Speech Explorer for sample clips. The shared comparison: Simba 3.5 generates 139.6 characters per second at $6.58 per 1M characters — the cheapest model on the chart, in line with Cartesia's Sonic 3.6 on speed and ahead of Eleven v4 Turbo at 105.3 chars/sec and $40 per 1M characters, roughly a 6x price gap.
Related event: Speechify's Simba 3.5 tops speech arena at a fraction of rivals' price(3 posts)→
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