ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 Turbo takes the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Provider Voice TTS Arena Leaderboard, ahead of Eleven v4 while costing half the price
Eleven v4 Turbo is the faster, lower-cost sibling of Eleven v4 from @ElevenLabs, designed to deliver comparable speech quality with lower latency and cost.
Key takeaways:
➤ Provider Voice: Eleven v4 Turbo has an Elo of 1,334 (+19/-19) across 1,645 appearances, placing it ahead of Eleven v4 at 1,321, Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 1,292 and Cartesia's Sonic 3.6 at 1,278. It ranks #1 in Customer Service and Entertainment and #2 in Assistants and Knowledge Sharing.
➤ Controlled Voice: Eleven v4 Turbo ranks #2 with an Elo of 1,173 (+15/-15) across 1,745 appearances, behind Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 1,181 and ahead of Eleven v4 at 1,160. It ranks #1 in Arabic, German, Hindi and English (UK).
➤ Pronunciation Robustness: Eleven v4 Turbo scores 90.1%, ranking #2 behind Eleven v4 at 91.7% and ahead of Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at 89.5%.
➤ Pricing: Eleven v4 Turbo is priced at $40/1M characters, half the price of Eleven v4 at $80/1M characters, compared to Sonic 3.6 at $49/1M characters and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at $16.49/1M characters.
➤ Speed: Eleven v4 Turbo processes 96 characters per second of generation time, compared to 84 characters per second for Eleven v4 and 59 for Eleven v3.
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