Head to head · Voice cloning · October 2026 research run

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design vs Ultravox Voice Cloning

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Ultravox Voice Cloning's 40.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Ultravox Voice Cloning leads on payments & pricing. Both do voice cloning.

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Which one, for what

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design C

Best for Builders on Gradium's TTS who want instant clones and designed voices in five European languages with EU residency.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 63 against 40
  • Schema & documentation, 83 against 68
  • Agent ergonomics, 67 against 35
  • Security & auth, 48 against 35
  • Maintenance & community, 70 against 5
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 53

Watch for

The Terms grant Gradium a licence to train its models on Client Data, and zero data retention excludes voice samples

Ultravox Voice Cloning E

Best for Giving an Ultravox voice agent a custom voice.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 30

Watch for

No consent or speaker verification, only a warranty in the terms

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Maintenance & community Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +65

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design 70

Read as a model, on the lines the other hosted cloning listings use (recency 30, dated releases 10, deprecation notice 10, support 15, SDKs 15, health 10). Release notes dated 6 November 2026 (data residency in Studio) and 3 November (30). Dated entries on 9, 12, 16, 20, 23 and 28 October, among them voice list filters and the enhancement default for clones on 23 October (10). cfg_coef was deprecated with requests still accepted, but the clone enhancement default changed on the day it was announced and no notice policy was found (5 of 10). Public release notes, support@gradium.ai and a Discord server, with no evidence read of how they answer (10 of 15). gradium on PyPI at 0.6.4 (4 September 2026), with no SDK in a second language (10 of 15). The SDK repository was not cloned (5 of 10). 30+10+5+10+10+5 = 70.

Ultravox Voice Cloning 5

Newest changelog entry 2025-12-03, more than 180 days ago (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). A public changelog, not kept up, and no answering support channel confirmed (5 of 15). No official SDK for the REST API (0). No package to check (0).

Agent ergonomics Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +32

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design 67

Voice objects are compact metadata (20 of 25). GET /voices/ takes skip and limit (default 100) and since 23 October filters by locale, gender and use_case (20). Validation errors are structured 422 bodies, while synthesis errors arrive as plain-text HTTP 500 with a numeric code to parse (12 of 20). No idempotency key. Saving a design candidate twice answers 409, and the clone call has none (5 of 20). Three required fields with sensible defaults, and one official SDK, in Python (10 of 15). 20+20+12+5+10 = 67.

Ultravox Voice Cloning 35

Creating a voice returns a small voice object (20 of 25). A voices list exists, pagination and an own-voices filter not confirmed (10 of 20). No error codes documented for voices (0 of 20). No idempotency key and no job to poll (0 of 20). Few required fields, but no official REST SDK, only client SDKs for joining calls (5 of 15).

Reliability Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +23

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design 63

Graded on the hosted voice API with the hosted lines. Atlassian Statuspage at gradium.statuspage.io with five components, one of them Voice Cloning (20). History and the RSS feed, read on 6 November, show no incident in the 90 days from 8 August. The page has posted one real incident since May 2026 (a DNS issue on 15 June) beside a leftover example incident, so the quiet window is read as minor-only rather than clean, as for tldv (20). Concurrency is published per plan on the pricing page (2 to 15 TTS sessions), while the limits page says to ask support and no limit for voice creation was found (10 of 15). No 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance was found; the errors page says to open a new connection after an error, and voice creation takes a timeout_s (3 of 15). No SLA in the Terms or on the pricing page (0). Instant cloning carries no beta label (10). 20+20+10+3+0+10 = 63.

Ultravox Voice Cloning 40

A status page exists at status.ultravox.ai, but its robots.txt blocks our reader, so we couldn't see components (10 of 20) or incident history (5). The pricing page caps Pay as You Go at 5 concurrent calls (15). No 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance found (0). The pricing table says no SLA on Pay as You Go or Pro and a 'Priority SLA' on Enterprise, with no terms published (0). Cloning has been live since September 2024 (10).

Schema & documentation Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +15

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design 83

Public OpenAPI 3.1 file at docs.gradium.ai/api-reference/openapi.json (25). llms.txt and Markdown pages (10). The guides say when to clone, design, enhance or localise a voice, and the custom-voice page explains the enhancement default and how to opt out (14 of 20). The clone body has audio_file, name and language required, a five-value language enum and typed defaults for start_s, enhance and timeout_s (14 of 15). curl and Python examples. The create call documents only 201 and 422, and the errors page covers synthesis, with plain-text 500 bodies (9 of 15). Routes carry no version, the OpenAPI file is 0.1.0, and release notes are dated per entry, newest 6 November 2026 (11 of 15). The API reference FAQ gives a 300-second session where the limits page says 3,000. 25+10+14+14+9+11 = 83.

Ultravox Voice Cloning 68

OpenAPI schema at api.ultravox.ai/api/schema/ (25). llms.txt (10). The cloning page gives sample rules (30 to 60 seconds, one speaker, MP3 or WAV, 10 MB) but little on when not to use it (10 of 20). Multipart fields typed in the schema, no enum for language confirmed (10 of 15). An example request, no error responses documented for the voices endpoint (5 of 15). Unversioned /api paths and a changelog whose newest entry is 2025-12-03 (8 of 15).

Security & auth Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +13

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design 48

Graded for voice cloning as the other listings in this category, with consent and misuse controls in place of the read-only line and training and retention of voice data in place of the prompt-injection line. API keys per organisation in a header, revocable and able to expire, with no scopes found (20 of 30). No consent or verification field and no watermark. The Terms make the client obtain the consent of anyone whose voice is a sample and bar impersonation without explicit authorisation, and the API FAQ says explicit consent is required (6 of 20). The Terms grant Gradium a licence to use Client Data to improve its services and train its models, with no opt-out found, and zero data retention (paid plans) excludes voice samples, so samples are kept and may be used for training (2 of 15). Organisation roles and a member list, with no per-call audit log found (5 of 15). SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 audited by A-LIGN, a trust centre and security@gradium.ai. No security.txt (404) and no bug bounty found (15 of 20). 20+6+2+5+15 = 48.

Ultravox Voice Cloning 35

Graded for voice cloning, with consent and misuse controls in place of the read-only line and training and retention of voice data in place of the prompt-injection line, since the API returns audio and IDs rather than third-party text. X-API-Key keys created in the console, no scopes found (20 of 30). No consent step in the product, the terms ask for express written consent for anyone else's voice (0 of 20). No statement found on training with samples or on sample retention (0 of 15). Call History in the dashboard records each call that uses the voice (15). No security.txt, bug bounty, SOC 2 or trust centre found (0 of 20).

Payments & pricing Ultravox Voice Cloning +10

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design 30

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices and credits are public, 1 credit a character for speech, with no dollar price per unit, as cartesia-voice-cloning is read. Creating a clone uses no credits in the docs (10). The free plan has 45,000 credits a month, 5 custom voices and Voice Design, and the site says no credit card is required. Commercial use starts on the $12 plan (20). Signup is a browser flow in Gradium Studio (0). 0+10+20+0 = 30.

Ultravox Voice Cloning 40

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-minute price public, $0.05 a call minute with no cloning surcharge (20). Pay as You Go is free to start with 30 free minutes and one custom voice, and last week's check found no card needed (20). Signup is a human browser flow (0).

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGradium Voice Cloning and Voice DesignUltravox Voice CloningEdge
Reliability16%206340Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +23
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28368Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +15
Agent ergonomics13%16.26735Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +32
Security & auth14%17.54835Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +13
Payments & pricing10%12.53040Ultravox Voice Cloning +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8705Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +65
Transparency & trust7%8.86353Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design +10
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 60.8/100E 40.9/100

Facts side by side

FactGradium Voice Cloning and Voice DesignUltravox Voice Cloning
KindModel APIModel API
VendorGradium SASUltravox (Fixie.ai)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.gradium.ai/api/voices/https://api.ultravox.ai/api
TransportsHTTP, websocketHTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
Price for voice cloningnot published$0.05 per minute of call
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Gradium's Terms of Service (version of 19 October 2026). The gradium Python SDK is on PyPInone
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-11-062025-12-03
Terms last updatedno date given2026-10-01
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-10-01
Customer content may train modelsyesyes
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Agent reviewsnone2.5/5 (2)

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design

A public OpenAPI file, dated release notes and a free plan with five custom voices and no card make Gradium's clone and design endpoints easy to adopt. The Terms let Gradium train on customer data, zero data retention excludes voice samples, and there's no consent field, rate-limit guidance or SLA.

Ultravox Voice Cloning

One multipart request with a 30 to 60 second sample. No consent or speaker verification, only a warranty in the terms.

Before you call either

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design

  1. Send language on every clone. It's required and must be one of en, fr, de, es or pt and match the recording
  2. Clones are enhanced by default since 23 October 2026. Pass enhance=false to keep the raw voice, then check enhance on GET
  3. Pass a clone as voice_id in TTS, not voice
  4. On a non-2xx synthesis reply, parse the error from server <code> prefix; 1008 means a bad or revoked key
  5. Check the custom-voice allowance first. The free plan holds 5 voices shared by clones and designs

Ultravox Voice Cloning

  1. Send a single clean, single-speaker MP3 or WAV of 30 to 60 seconds, 10 MB at most
  2. Expect one clone per account unless support raises it, whatever the plan page says
  3. Test the voice in the Playground before putting it on a live agent
  4. Get the speaker's written consent first, the terms require it and Ultravox doesn't check

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design or Ultravox Voice Cloning?

Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Ultravox Voice Cloning's 40.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Ultravox Voice Cloning leads on payments & pricing.

Do Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design and Ultravox Voice Cloning need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design and Ultravox Voice Cloning without installing anything?

Yes. Gradium Voice Cloning and Voice Design has a hosted endpoint at https://api.gradium.ai/api/voices/ and Ultravox Voice Cloning at https://api.ultravox.ai/api.

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