Eleven v4 Turbo tops TTS arena at half the price of v4
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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…
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Artificial Analysis reported in an October 6, 2026 post that ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 Turbo ranks first on its Provider Voice text-to-speech arena. The leaderboard uses Elo ratings, scores that move with head-to-head comparisons. Turbo has 1,334 over 1,645 appearances, ahead of Eleven v4 at 1,321. The post attaches a margin of +19/-19 to Turbo's score, which is larger than the 13-point lead, so on these numbers the ranking does not clearly separate the two.
The clearer differences are price and speed. The post lists Turbo at $40 per million characters against $80 for v4, and 96 characters generated per second against 84. On the separate Controlled Voice board Turbo is second at 1,173, behind Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 1,181, and on pronunciation robustness it scores 90.1 percent, behind v4 at 91.7. These are Artificial Analysis's figures as of that post.
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