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Eleven v4 Turbo tops TTS arena at half the price of v4

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ArtificialAnlys@ArtificialAnlys

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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Eleven v4 Turbo ranks #1 on the provider voice TTS arena at $40 per 1M characters, half the price of Eleven v4. Voice builders get concrete cost, latency and quality numbers for choosing a TTS provider.

Key takeaways · AI-distilled
  • Artificial Analysis puts Eleven v4 Turbo's Provider Voice Elo at 1,334 (+19/-19, 1,645 appearances), over Eleven v4 at 1,321, Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 1,292 and Cartesia Sonic 3.6 at 1,278. It ranks first in Customer Service and Entertainment.
  • In the Controlled Voice arena it ranks second at 1,173, behind Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 1,181, while ranking first for Arabic, German, Hindi and UK English.
  • On pronunciation robustness it scores 90.1%, behind Eleven v4 at 91.7% and ahead of Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at 89.5%.
  • Per 1M characters: Eleven v4 Turbo $40, Eleven v4 $80, Sonic 3.6 $49, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS $16.49. Speed is 96 characters per second of generation time versus 84 for Eleven v4 and 59 for Eleven v3.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
  • AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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