# Made in India, Built to Beat the World: Murf AI’s Falcon 2 Takes On OpenAI and ElevenLabs

URL: https://technosports.co.in/made-in-india-built-to-beat-the-world-murf-ai/  
Published: 2026-08-20  
Updated: 2026-08-20  
Author: Reetam Bodhak

For years, the biggest breakthroughs in voice AI came out of Silicon Valley. Murf AI just flipped that script. Its new Falcon 2 model — built by India-based engineers — is now outranking OpenAI Realtime and ElevenLabs’ Turbo and Flash models for naturalness, while running faster and costing a fraction of the price.

## What Makes Falcon 2 Different

Voice AI has always forced a trade-off: make speech sound natural, and you slow it down or drive up costs; make it fast and cheap, and it starts sounding robotic. Falcon 2 was engineered to break that trade-off entirely. Instead of scaling up model size, Murf AI built a lightweight, inference-efficient architecture that keeps both speed and expressiveness intact.

On the independent Artificial Analysis Speech Arena, Falcon 2 ranks ahead of ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5, ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, and OpenAI Realtime for naturalness — while delivering sub-100 millisecond time-to-first-audio. It also handles the messy realities of real-world speech better than most models, including code-mixed conversations, regional accents, and enterprise-specific details like currencies, pincodes, and vehicle numbers.

![Murf AI](https://technosports.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/faidsis.jpg)

| Metric | Falcon 2 | ElevenLabs Turbo/Flash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Naturalness ranking | Ahead of OpenAI Realtime & ElevenLabs | — |
| Time-to-first-audio | Sub-100ms | Higher |
| Price per generated minute | $0.01 | $0.05 |
| Cost per 1M minutes | $10,000 | $50,000 |
| Voices / languages supported | 150+ voices, 35+ languages | — |
| Concurrent call capacity | 10,000 | — |
| Data residency | 11 geographies | — |

## Built for Enterprise Scale

Falcon 2 supports on-premise deployment, instant voice cloning from just ten seconds of audio, and stable performance across thousands of simultaneous calls — features aimed squarely at enterprise adoption rather than just consumer apps. Murf AI’s leadership frames it as a statement about where foundational AI can now be built, not just where it’s traditionally come from, positioning India’s engineering talent inside the same conversation as major players in <cite index=”18-1″>artificial intelligence</cite>, a field with roots and evolution detailed on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence).

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## FAQs

### **How much cheaper is Falcon 2 than ElevenLabs’ models?**

Falcon 2 costs $0.01 per generated minute versus $0.05 for ElevenLabs Turbo and Flash — one-fifth the price.

### **How many languages does Falcon 2 support?**

 It supports 150+ voices across 35+ languages, with strong coverage of Indian languages.