Models head to head — pick two or three. Same scoring, same week. Search to swap, add, or remove a model and the matchup recomputes. Hover or tap a stat to see how it shifted.
If quality matters most
CCartesia Sonic
Best raw competency at 99/100 and the lowest hallucination rate in the set. Pay the premium when accuracy compounds.
If cost matters most
EElevenLabs v3
-200% cheaper than Cartesia, 57.9 points lower on competency. The value pick for high-volume workloads.
CartesiaCCartesia Sonic
★ FrontierCloud · API
ElevenLabsEElevenLabs v3
★ FrontierCloud · API
CompetencyWeighted AUDIO score
99/100
flat W21 · rank 4
Best in class
41.1/100
flat W21 · rank 1 · −57.9 vs winner
Cost (input)Per 1M tokens
$50.00
67% cheaper than ElevenLabs
Cheapest
$150.00
~3× the cheapest in the row
Cost (output)Per 1M tokens
$150.00
67% cheaper
Cheapest
$450.00
~3× the cheapest in the row
SpeedTokens / second
96 tok/s
local inference, batch 1
Fastest cloud
90 tok/s
local inference, batch 1
AccuracyHallucination rate
3.2%
+1.2 pp vs winner
2%
lowest in category
Most accurate
ContextMax input tokens
18 langs
18 langs context window
32 langs
32 langs context window
Largest
DeploymentWhere it runs
Cloud only
API key · quick setup
Most flexible
Cloud only
API key · quick setup
Data residencyCompliance
Vendor regions
verify region availability
Most flexible
Vendor regions
verify region availability
LicenseWhat you can do
Proprietary
commercial OK · ToS applies
Most permissive
Proprietary
commercial OK · ToS applies
Where each one wins.
Sub-competency scores by business task. Bars highlight the row leader in accent.
Text-to-Speech35% of category weight
CCartesia Sonic
99
EElevenLabs v3
41
Voice Cloning25% weight
CCartesia Sonic
99
EElevenLabs v3
41
Multilingual20% weight
CCartesia Sonic
99
EElevenLabs v3
41
Real-time Conversation20% weight
CCartesia Sonic
99
EElevenLabs v3
41
CCartesia Sonic
✓ Best for
Strong at Text-to-Speech for Cartesia.
Strong at Voice Cloning for Cartesia.
⚠ Watch out for
Validate fit for your specific workload before committing.
