Gradium · Proprietary · Read 2026-10-27
Gradium TTS: latency, voice quality, price and languages
- Rank
- 1 (tied) / 23
- Speed tier
- Headroom
- P95
- 104.3 ms
- Price / 1M chars
- $36 to $57.80
Gradium TTS is a proprietary text-to-speech model from Gradium. Coval measures a median of 53.7 ms and a P95 of 104.3 ms to first audio, which puts it in the Headroom speed tier, rank 1 (tied) of 23 in the multilingual ranking. Artificial Analysis or Speko tested it in 4 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 | Headroom |
| Median time to first audio | 53.7 ms |
| P90 | 92.3 ms |
| P95 | 104.3 ms |
| Mean | 64.2 ms |
| Standard deviation | 21.9 ms |
| Calls in the window | 2,808 |
| Cekura median, streamed text | -64 ms |
| Cekura median, full text | 76 ms |
Voice quality (never added together)
| Listener Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,174 ±13 |
| Customer-service Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,241 ±26 |
| Naturalness (Speko) | 1,592 |
| Naturalness estimate (Cekura, 1 to 5) | 4.51 |
Accuracy
| Reading accuracy (Cekura) | 79.5% |
| Numbers (Cekura) | 77% |
| Codes (Cekura) | 77% |
| Context (Cekura) | 67% |
| Medical terms (Cekura) | 99% |
| Hard passages judged correct (Artificial Analysis) | n/a |
| Numbers and dates (Speko score) | 0.27 |
| Word error rate (Coval) | 1.9% |
Price per 1 million characters
| Range across sources | $36 to $57.80 |
| Artificial Analysis | $47.80 |
| Speko | $57.80 |
| Coval | n/a |
| Cekura | $36 |
Coverage
| Access | Proprietary |
| Streaming | Measured |
| Coval tags | multilingual, voice-cloning |
| Rated for | Knowledge sharing, Assistants, Entertainment, Customer service, Voice agents |
| Languages tested | French, German, Portuguese, Spanish |
Not collected
Every measure of the database is filled for this model.
Sources
- 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://gradium.ai/
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Frequently asked questions
- How fast is Gradium TTS?
- Coval measures a median time to first audio of 53.7 ms and a P95 of 104.3 ms for Gradium TTS, over 30 days from the US East in English (Headroom tier).
- How much does Gradium TTS cost?
- The benchmarks print a list price of $36 to $57.80 per million characters for Gradium TTS.
- Which languages was Gradium TTS tested in?
- Artificial Analysis or Speko tested Gradium TTS in French, German, Portuguese, Spanish.