844 ms P50 time-to-first-audio on Speko; ranked 28th of 112 in the TTS for Voice Agents 2026 index.
Benchmark summary: 28.3/100, ranked 28th of 112 in the TTS for Voice Agents 2026 index (Listed). Strongest criterion: voice quality, 20 of 20 points.
ElevenLabs Eleven v4 is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from ElevenLabs, measured by two independent benchmarks: Artificial Analysis and Speko.
Overall score
28.3 /100
Data checked on September 30, 2026
Updated after each benchmark capture
Every point comes from a public benchmark: sources · methodology
ElevenLabs Eleven v4 ranks 28th of 112 in the 2026 text-to-speech (TTS) API benchmark, with a score of 28.3/100.
Speko measures a P50 TTFA of 844 ms from US East (n=30), dated September 28, 2026: 27th lowest of the 29 models Speko measures.
Speko rates its pronunciation robustness on numbers, dates and currency at 0.9 on a 0-to-1 scale (the highest of the 28 models Speko rates).
In the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena (capture of October 1, 2026), ElevenLabs Eleven v4 has an Elo of 1,320 (±18, 95% confidence) from 1,803 blind comparisons, the highest of the 92 models Artificial Analysis rates. Speko rates its naturalness at 1,708 Elo from blind A/B votes (the highest of the 41 models Speko rates).
Artificial Analysis lists ElevenLabs Eleven v4 at $80 per 1M characters (65th lowest of the 78 models Artificial Analysis lists a price for). Speko lists a cost of about $80 per 1M characters.
Artificial Analysis changed its Speech Arena Elo between the captures of September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 without a new measurement date (1,316, then 1,320): the score uses the average, 1,318. The value shown is the latest. Speko changed its pronunciation robustness between the captures of September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 without a new measurement date (1, then 0.9): the score uses the average, 0.95. The value shown is the latest.
Tested in Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and Vietnamese by Artificial Analysis or Speko. A language missing here was not tested, which does not mean it is unsupported.
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