ElevenLabs Scribe v2vsStep Audio 2
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 leads the overall Podium Score by 3.5 points (92.5 vs 89.0).Category wins: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 4 — 1 Step Audio 2.ElevenLabs Scribe v2 is the cheaper pick ($0.016/M vs $0.024/M per 1M output tokens). ElevenLabs Scribe v2 is faster (240 t/s vs 150 t/s).
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Quick VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 92.5 (vs 89.0 for Step Audio 2). In head-to-head domain evaluations, ElevenLabs Scribe v2 outperforms in 4 of 7 benchmark categories.
Coding & Engineering
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 (0.0)
Inference Speed
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 (240 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 ($0.016/M)
API Price / 1M (in · out)
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 $0.008/M · $0.016/M — Step Audio 2 $0.012/M · $0.024/M
Choose ElevenLabs Scribe v2 for vision and multimodal apps, and Step Audio 2 for complex reasoning and analysis.
| Metric | ElevenLabs Scribe v2 | Step Audio 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 92.5 ▲ | 89.0 |
| Arena Elo | 1460 ▲ | 1422 |
| Intelligence Index | 93.0 ▲ | 89.0 |
| Coding | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Math | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Reasoning | 30.0 | 32.0 ▲ |
| Agentic | 70.0 ▲ | 55.0 |
| Knowledge | 50.0 ▲ | 46.0 |
| Multimodal | 90.0 ▲ | 85.0 |
| Long-context | 50.0 ▲ | 45.0 |
| Output speed | 240 t/s ▲ | 150 t/s |
| Output price | $0.016/M ▲ | $0.024/M |
| Context window | 64K | 64K |
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: ElevenLabs Scribe v2 vs Claude Mythos · ElevenLabs Scribe v2 vs Claude 5.5 Sonnet · ElevenLabs Scribe v2 vs Kimi K3.1 Pro · ElevenLabs Scribe v2 vs Eleven Multilingual v3