ElevenLabs vs Google
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 vs Google Gemini 3 Flash for transcription. WER: 2.2% vs 2.9% — edge ElevenLabs Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.
Head to head
| Axis | ElevenLabs Scribe v2 | Google Gemini 3 Flash | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.67 per 1000 min | $1.92 per 1000 min* | — |
| WER | 2.2% | 2.9% | ElevenLabs |
| Langs | 90 | — | — |
| Latency | 150 ms | — | — |
| diarization | ✓ | — | — |
| timestamps | ✓ | — | — |
| vocab | ✓ | — | — |
* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so no price edge is awarded.
Strengths & caveats
ElevenLabsHighest accuracy on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard (2.2% WER, an English-leaning aggregate); broad language coverage with full diarization, word-level timestamps and custom vocabulary. Not the cheapest comparable option; low-latency streaming runs on a separate Scribe v2 Realtime mode that is billed higher at $0.39/hr.GoogleStrong accuracy (2.9% WER) and broad multilingual coverage as part of a multimodal model. Speech-to-text is a feature of a general LLM, not a dedicated transcription API: no native diarization, word-timestamps or custom vocabulary. The $1.92/1000 min is input-audio tokens only (output transcript billed separately), so it is not directly comparable to per-minute STT pricing.
Sources
- Artificial Analysis — Speech to Text2026-08-20
- Open ASR Leaderboard2026-06-19