October 6, 2026
Eleven v4 Turbo text-to-speech costs half as much: $40 per million characters
As of Oct 6, Eleven v4 Turbo ranks first in Artificial Analysis's speech generation leaderboard using provider voices.
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Eleven v4 Turbo from ElevenLabs took first place in the Artificial Analysis Provider Voice TTS Arena leaderboard, beating Eleven v4 at half the price. Eleven v4 Turbo from @ElevenLabs is faster and cheaper than Eleven v4. The model was designed to maintain comparable speech quality while reducing latency and cost. Key points: ➤ Provider Voice: Eleven v4 Turbo has an Elo rating of 1,334 (+19/−19) after 1,645 appearances in comparisons. It leads 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. The model ranks first in the customer service and entertainment categories and second in the assistant and knowledge delivery categories. ➤ Controlled Voice: Eleven v4 Turbo ranks second with an Elo rating of 1,173 (+15/−15) after 1,745 appearances in comparisons. Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus leads at 1,181, while Eleven v4 trails at 1,160. Turbo ranks first for Arabic, German, Hindi and British English. ➤ Pronunciation consistency: Eleven v4 Turbo scored 90.1% and ranked second. Eleven v4 leads at 91.7%, while Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS trails at 89.5%. ➤ Price: Eleven v4 Turbo costs $40 per million characters, half the price of Eleven v4 at $80 per million characters. For comparison, Sonic 3.6 costs $49 per million characters, and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS costs $16.49 per million characters. ➤ Speed: Eleven v4 Turbo generates 96 characters per second of model runtime. Eleven v4 generates 84 characters, and Eleven v3 generates 59. Details and speech samples below in the thread 🧵
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Eleven v4 Turbo took the lead after 1,645 appearances in Provider Voice comparisons. The model turns text into speech for voiceovers and voice applications.
Half the price. Eleven v4 costs $80 per million characters. Turbo costs $40 for the same volume, halving the budget for voicing the same text.
Prices recorded by Artificial Analysis on Oct 6, 2026:
| Model | Per million characters | | --- | --- | | Eleven v4 Turbo | $40 | | Eleven v4 | $80 | | Sonic 3.6 | $49 | | Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS | $16.49 |
Faster generation. Eleven v4 Turbo generates 96 characters per second of model runtime. Eleven v4 produces 84, while Eleven v3 produces 59.
Turbo ranks first in the customer service and entertainment categories. It ranks second in the assistant and knowledge delivery categories.
In the Controlled Voice leaderboard, Turbo ranks second behind Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus. It also comes second in pronunciation consistency testing: 90.1%, compared with 91.7% for Eleven v4 and 89.5% for Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS.
In Controlled Voice, Eleven v4 Turbo leads for Arabic, German, Hindi and British English.