Eleven Multilingual v3vsStep Audio 2
Eleven Multilingual v3 leads the overall Podium Score by 5.0 points (94.0 vs 89.0).Category wins: Eleven Multilingual v3 4 — 0 Step Audio 2.Step Audio 2 is the cheaper pick ($0.024/M vs $0.05/M per 1M output tokens). Eleven Multilingual v3 is faster (200 t/s vs 150 t/s).
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Quick VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis
Eleven Multilingual v3 is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 94.0 (vs 89.0 for Step Audio 2). In head-to-head domain evaluations, Eleven Multilingual v3 outperforms in 4 of 7 benchmark categories.
Coding & Engineering
Eleven Multilingual v3 (0.0)
Inference Speed
Eleven Multilingual v3 (200 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Step Audio 2 ($0.024/M)
API Price / 1M (in · out)
Eleven Multilingual v3 $0.025/M · $0.05/M — Step Audio 2 $0.012/M · $0.024/M
Choose Eleven Multilingual v3 for vision and multimodal apps, and Step Audio 2 for cost-sensitive workloads.
| Metric | Eleven Multilingual v3 | Step Audio 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 94.0 ▲ | 89.0 |
| Arena Elo | 1485 ▲ | 1422 |
| Intelligence Index | 94.0 ▲ | 89.0 |
| Coding | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Math | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Reasoning | 35.0 ▲ | 32.0 |
| Agentic | 65.0 ▲ | 55.0 |
| Knowledge | 48.0 ▲ | 46.0 |
| Multimodal | 95.0 ▲ | 85.0 |
| Long-context | 45.0 | 45.0 |
| Output speed | 200 t/s ▲ | 150 t/s |
| Output price | $0.05/M | $0.024/M ▲ |
| Context window | 32K | 64K ▲ |
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Eleven Multilingual v3 vs Claude Mythos · Eleven Multilingual v3 vs Claude 5.5 Sonnet · Eleven Multilingual v3 vs Kimi K3.1 Pro · Eleven Multilingual v3 vs FLUX.2 Pro