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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

ElevenLabs vs Google

ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 / Eleven v3 vs Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS for text-to-speech. ELO: 1179 vs 1212 — edge Google Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 / Eleven v3 compared with Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS per decision axis
AxisElevenLabs Multilingual v2 / Eleven v3Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSEdge
Price$100 per 1M chars$12 per 1M chars*—
ELO11791212Google
TTFA653 ms——
Langs29——
streaming✓✓—
cloning✓——

* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so no price edge is awarded.

Strengths & caveats
ElevenLabsLargest production adoption and most mature voice-library/cloning ecosystem, with both instant and professional cloning; Eleven v3 is the strongest ElevenLabs model on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena at 1179 ELO (rank 12 of 99). Most expensive per-character of the comparable group ($100/1M chars at $0.10/1K, charged for both Eleven v3 and Multilingual v2); the $0.05/1K Flash/Turbo and v3 Conversational tiers are cheaper but different models. Independent Coval TTFA is slow for the flagship tiers: 653ms P50 for Eleven v3 and 1262ms for Multilingual v2, against 212ms for the cheaper Flash v2.5 — the 264ms previously listed here was a Turbo v2.5 figure, not a flagship one. Language counts differ per model on the pricing page (29 for Multilingual v2, 32 for Flash/Turbo, 70+ for Eleven v3); the 29 shown is the Multilingual v2 figure. Multilingual v2 ranks only 33rd on the Arena (1104 ELO).GoogleHighest-scoring row in this table on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena (1212 ELO, rank 5 of 99), combined with a low effective per-character cost. Token-based pricing (unchanged at $1/1M input text tokens + $20/1M audio output tokens, billed at 25 audio tokens per second); the ~$12/1M-chars figure is a third-party conversion estimate, not a provider per-character rate, so vergelijkbaar=false. Still labelled a Preview model on Google's own pricing page, with more restrictive rate limits. No independent TTFA: Gemini TTS is absent from the Coval benchmark, where Google appears only as chirp-3-hd at 484ms P50. No native voice cloning.
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