ElevenLabs · Proprietary · Read 2026-10-27
ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo: latency, voice quality, price and languages
- Rank
- 8 / 23
- Speed tier
- Fast enough
- P95
- 238.6 ms
- Price / 1M chars
- $40
ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo is a proprietary text-to-speech model from ElevenLabs. Coval measures a median of 188.9 ms and a P95 of 238.6 ms to first audio, which puts it in the Fast enough speed tier, rank 8 of 23 in the multilingual ranking. Artificial Analysis or Speko tested it in 9 languages.
This summary is generated from the measures below; it is not a vendor description. Measures a source does not hold are shown as n/a and are never estimated.
Speed (Coval, 30 days, US East, English)
| Speed tier | Fast enough |
| Median time to first audio | 188.9 ms |
| P90 | 221.9 ms |
| P95 | 238.6 ms |
| Mean | 194.2 ms |
| Standard deviation | 46.7 ms |
| Calls in the window | 2,466 |
| Cekura median, streamed text | 69 ms |
| Cekura median, full text | 176 ms |
Voice quality (never added together)
| Listener Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,333 ±16 |
| Customer-service Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,372 ±33 |
| Naturalness (Speko) | 1,670 |
| Naturalness estimate (Cekura, 1 to 5) | 4.42 |
Accuracy
| Reading accuracy (Cekura) | 79.9% |
| Numbers (Cekura) | 71% |
| Codes (Cekura) | 82% |
| Context (Cekura) | 88% |
| Medical terms (Cekura) | 100% |
| Hard passages judged correct (Artificial Analysis) | 90.1% |
| Numbers and dates (Speko score) | 0.90 |
| Word error rate (Coval) | 1.7% |
Price per 1 million characters
| Range across sources | $40 |
| Artificial Analysis | $40 |
| Speko | $40 |
| Coval | $40 |
| Cekura | $40 |
Coverage
| Access | Proprietary |
| Streaming | Measured |
| Coval tags | emotion-control, multilingual, voice-cloning |
| Rated for | Knowledge sharing, Assistants, Entertainment, Customer service, Voice agents |
| Languages tested | Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese |
Not collected
Every measure of the database is filled for this model.
Sources
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech (read 2026-10-27)
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard/provider-voice (read 2026-10-27)
- https://benchmarks.cekura.ai/text-to-speech (read 2026-10-27)
- https://benchmarks-api-6wxgp27p2a-ue.a.run.app/v1/results/aggregates?benchmark=TTS&window=30d&include_series=false (read 2026-10-27)
- https://benchmarks.speko.ai/tts/ (read 2026-10-27)
- Vendor site: https://elevenlabs.io/
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Frequently asked questions
- How fast is ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo?
- Coval measures a median time to first audio of 188.9 ms and a P95 of 238.6 ms for ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo, over 30 days from the US East in English (Fast enough tier).
- How much does ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo cost?
- The benchmarks print a list price of $40 per million characters for ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo.
- Which languages was ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo tested in?
- Artificial Analysis or Speko tested ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese.