The honest comparison.
ElevenLabs is a genuinely excellent voice company, so we are not going to pretend otherwise. Here is how we line up, scored by the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena, an independent listener-vote arena we do not run. We even list the things they do better than us, lower on this page.
Five of our engines, four of their models.
On the independent arena, our two strongest engines, Gemini Flash and Grok Voice, score above ElevenLabs' best model, Eleven v3. That is one listener-preference metric, not the whole story, and we say so below.
- Gemini FlashOurs1225
- Grok VoiceOurs1197
- Eleven v311L1176
- Turbo v2.511L1110
- Multilingual v211L1105
- Flash v2.511L1099
- KokoroOurs1060
- MAI Voice 21Ours1007
- Zonos2Ours1000
- 1Score is for MAI-Voice-1; MAI-Voice-2 is not yet arena-rated.
- 2Baseline rating with limited arena votes so far.
Quality Elo: third-party, from the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena (source), retrieved 2026-06-10. Listener-vote rating, not a Cantari measurement.
We do different things.
We are not one voice model competing with another. ElevenLabs is a single, excellent vendor that builds its own voices. We route you across five engines and pick the strongest one for each job, which is why our best two land where they do. Arena Elo measures one thing, how listeners vote in blind comparisons. It is a good signal and one metric among many. Latency, languages, controls, cloning, price, and ownership all matter too, and we put every one of them in the open on our benchmark.
Per-character API rates vs one flat allowance.
Their published API prices are real facts; we list them as-is. The difference is the model, not just the number: a per-character meter versus a flat monthly allowance you do not have to watch.
ElevenLabs API, per 1M characters
- Eleven v3$100/M
- Turbo v2.5$50/M
- Multilingual v2$100/M
- Flash v2.5$50/M
Published API list prices from the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena payload, retrieved 2026-06-10. About one million characters is roughly a thousand minutes of speech.
Cantari, one flat allowance
One monthly plan with a character allowance you can spend across any of the five engines. No per-character meter ticking as you work, no credit packs to top up in the middle of a chapter.
We publish what each engine actually costs us on the open benchmark, so you can see the routing and the pricing are fair. The plan tiers are on pricing.
Where ElevenLabs is ahead today.
This is the part most comparison pages leave out. If one of these is your job, they are the better tool right now, and we would rather tell you than waste your time.
Voice cloning you can use today
Instant and professional voice cloning are live and mature. If you need to clone a specific voice right now, that is theirs to win.
A very large voice library
Thousands of community and professional voices in a searchable marketplace. If you are shopping for one particular ready-made voice, the odds are good they have it.
A mature, broad ecosystem
A dubbing studio, a sound-effects generator, and conversational voice agents, all built out and battle-tested by a large user base.
Wide language coverage
32 languages across their multilingual models, with a long track record shipping localized voice work.
What you get with us instead.
The trade-offs that come from routing across engines instead of building one.
Top-two arena scores, by routing
We do not build a voice model. We route you to the strongest one for the job, and on the independent arena our two best-scoring engines sit above their best-scoring model.
Five engines, one studio
Switch engines without switching tools or accounts. Pick the expressive one for a dramatic read, the fast one for a draft.
Flat pricing, not credit packs
One monthly allowance measured in characters. No per-character meter to watch, no credits to top up mid-project.
An open benchmark
Third-party quality scores, our own measured latency, and the real cost of each engine, all published. You can check our work.
You own and export everything
Full commercial rights to what you make, and one-click export. Nothing is held hostage to your subscription.
Studios included, not add-ons
Audiobook, dubbing, and speech-to-text studios come with the plan rather than as separate products.
The questions you are right to ask.
Is this page cherry-picked?
Can I clone voices here yet?
Why should I trust this page?
When ElevenLabs is the right call.
You need mature voice cloning
Ours is coming soon and will be English-first. Theirs is mature, with professional cloning from hours of audio. For high-stakes cloning, they are ahead today.
You need a specific marketplace voice
If your project is built around one particular voice in their library, that is where it lives.
You need their enterprise features
Some of their dubbing, agent, and enterprise tooling is more built out than ours today.
See the numbers for yourself.
The full benchmark has every engine, the same script, third-party scores, our measured latency, and the real cost of each one. Nothing hidden.