Speech Arena LeaderboardArtificial Analysis

Compare TTS models using each provider's own native voices.

Range
Creator
Model
Elo
95% CI
Samples
Arena Voices
Released
API Pricing 1
11
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic 3.6
1,283-17/171,782Aug 2026$49.0 /1M chars
22-3
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus
1,238-14/142,251Jul 2026$27.6 /1M chars
32-3
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
Simba 3.2
1,238-14/142,219Jul 2026$10.0 /1M chars
44-7
VUI Labs logoVUI Labs
Luna TTS
1,223-14/142,348Jun 2026$80.0 /1M chars
54-8
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
v3 Conversational
1,219-15/151,757Aug 2026$50.0 /1M chars
64-9
BreezeBlue logoBreezeBlue
Breeze TTS 2
1,215-17/171,095Aug 2026$34.0 /1M chars
75-9
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
1,210-12/123,555Apr 2026$18.3 /1M chars
85-11
StepFun logoStepFun
StepAudio 2.5 TTS
1,208-14/141,976Jun 2026$85.0 /1M chars
97-11
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic 3.5
1,199-12/123,068May 2026$49.0 /1M chars
108-11
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS 1.5 Max
1,197-12/122,693Jan 2026$26.0 /1M chars
117-13
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning V3.1 Pro (Jul 2026)
1,196-15/151,800Jul 2026$19.5 /1M chars
1211-14
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS-2 - Research Preview
1,185-12/122,796May 2026$20.8 /1M chars
1312-14
Soniox logoSoniox
Soniox TTS Real-Time v2
1,183-11/115,545Aug 2026$14.2 /1M chars
1412-15
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Eleven v3
1,177-11/114,450Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1514-15
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.8 HD
1,171-11/114,563Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1616-20
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.8 Turbo
1,152-11/114,447Feb 2026$60.0 /1M chars
1716-21
Murf AI logoMurf AI
Falcon 2
1,151-15/151,509Jul 2026$10.0 /1M chars
1816-23
Gradium logoGradium
Gradium TTS Beta
1,149-15/151,498Jul 2026$47.2 /1M chars
1916-23
async logoasync
Async Flash v1.5
1,145-13/132,202May 2026$10.1 /1M chars
2016-24
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
Fish Audio S2.1 Pro
1,144-13/132,171Jun 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2116-27
StepFun logoStepFun
Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)
1,139-13/132,303Feb 2026$40.0 /1M chars
2219-27
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.6 HD
1,136-11/114,085Oct 2025$100.0 /1M chars
2319-30
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning V3.1 Pro TTS (Jun 2026)
1,134-13/132,125Jun 2026$19.5 /1M chars
2421-30
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS 1.5 Mini
1,132-12/123,085Jan 2026$10.4 /1M chars
2521-30
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
Azure HD 2.5
1,130-12/122,570Mar 2026$22.0 /1M chars
2622-30
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.6 Turbo
1,126-11/114,457Oct 2025$60.0 /1M chars
2721-30
async logoasync
Async Pro v1.0
1,126-13/132,052May 2026$20.2 /1M chars
2822-31
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
Fish Audio S2 ProHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,125-13/132,199Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2922-31
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
Simba 3.0
1,124-12/122,605Feb 2026$12.5 /1M chars
3022-32
SpaceXAI logoSpaceXAI
SpaceXAI TTS
1,123-16/161,050Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
3130-35
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech-02-HD
1,112-11/114,474Mar 2025$100.0 /1M chars
3231-35
OpenAI logoOpenAI
TTS-1 HD
1,108-11/113,630Nov 2023$30.0 /1M chars
3331-36
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Turbo v2.5
1,104-10/107,351Jul 2024$50.0 /1M chars
3431-38
StepFun logoStepFun
Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,102-13/131,992Feb 2026N/A
3532-37
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Multilingual v2
1,102-10/107,806Aug 2023$100.0 /1M chars
3633-39
OpenAI logoOpenAI
TTS-1
1,095-10/106,556Nov 2023$15.0 /1M chars
3733-43
Resemble AI logoResemble AI
Chatterbox HD
1,093-13/132,386—May 2025$40.0 /1M chars
3834-45
Gradium logoGradium
Gradium TTS
1,090-13/131,935Jun 2026$47.2 /1M chars
3936-45
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTS
1,088-12/123,193Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
4036-45
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech-02-Turbo
1,085-11/113,938Mar 2025$60.0 /1M chars
4138-46
Google logoGoogle
Studio
1,082-11/114,725Feb 2023$160.0 /1M chars
4237-50
Mistral logoMistral
Voxtral TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,082-13/132,160Mar 2026$16.0 /1M chars
4338-46
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Flash v2.5
1,082-11/115,997Dec 2024$50.0 /1M chars
4438-51
Hithink logoHithink
Speech 2.6
1,080-13/131,839Jul 2026N/A
4538-50
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
OpenAudio S1
1,079-11/114,645Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
4641-57
OpenAI logoOpenAI
GPT-Realtime-2
1,071-13/131,954May 2026$191.6 /1M chars
4741-57
Bland AI logoBland AI
Bland Speech v3
1,070-12/123,581Aug 2026$40.0 /1M chars
4844-56
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic 3
1,070-11/113,679Oct 2025$49.0 /1M chars
4941-59
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya 2 Flash
1,070-14/141,814Jul 2026N/A
5041-58
Google logoGoogle
Journey
1,069-13/132,294Dec 2023$160.0 /1M chars
5146-57
MiniMax logoMiniMax
T2A-01-HD
1,068-11/115,152Jan 2025$50.0 /1M chars
5246-62
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,066-13/132,031Feb 2026N/A
5346-62
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
SIMBA 1.6
1,064-12/122,355Oct 2024$10.0 /1M chars
5446-61
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Generative
1,064-11/113,961May 2024$30.0 /1M chars
5546-64
Xiaomi logoXiaomi
MiMo-V2.5-TTS
1,062-13/132,021-N/A
5647-63
Kokoro logoKokoro
Kokoro 82M v1.0Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,060-11/115,612Jan 2025$0.7 /1M chars
5746-64
Rime logoRime
Coda
1,059-13/132,234May 2026$50.0 /1M chars
5851-65
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)
1,056-12/122,983Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
5952-65
Google logoGoogle
Chirp 3: HD
1,056-11/113,557Mar 2025$30.0 /1M chars
6052-65
Hume AI logoHume AI
Octave 2
1,055-12/123,200Oct 2025$87.5 /1M chars
6151-68
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya 2 Global
1,055-14/141,749Jul 2026N/A
6252-68
Deepgram logoDeepgram
Flux TTS
1,053-14/141,985Aug 2026$45.0 /1M chars
6351-71
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
OpenAudio S1 Mini
1,050-19/191,777Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
6457-68
async logoasync
Async Flash v1.0
1,049-11/114,156Jul 2025$10.1 /1M chars
6558-71
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya1Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,045-12/123,463Jun 2025N/A
6660-73
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Long-Form
1,043-13/132,007Nov 2023$100.0 /1M chars
6762-74
Boson AI logoBoson AI
Higgs Audio V3 TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,042-13/132,009Jun 2026N/A
6862-74
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic English (Oct 2024)
1,041-12/123,559Oct 2024$49.0 /1M chars
6965-74
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)
1,036-12/122,581Dec 2025$18.3 /1M chars
7065-74
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
SIMBA 1.0
1,036-11/115,121Jun 2024$10.0 /1M chars
7166-75
MiniMax logoMiniMax
T2A-01-Turbo
1,034-11/115,255Jan 2025$30.0 /1M chars
7264-77
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
Azure Neural
1,031-19/191,226Sept 2018$15.0 /1M chars
7368-77
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
MAI-Voice-1
1,030-12/122,285Apr 2026N/A
7469-77
Hume AI logoHume AI
Octave TTS
1,029-11/115,001Feb 2025$87.5 /1M chars
7571-77
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning v3.1
1,024-12/122,319Mar 2026$25.0 /1M chars
7671-77
Xiaomi logoXiaomi
MiMo-V2-TTS
1,022-13/131,866Mar 2026N/A
7773-77
Resemble AI logoResemble AI
ChatterboxGitHubOpen Weights
1,020-11/114,904May 2025$25.0 /1M chars
7877-81
Krafton logoKrafton
Raon SpeechLM
1,007-14/142,051-N/A
7978-81
Rime logoRime
Arcana v3
1,004-13/132,361Feb 2026$50.0 /1M chars
8078-81
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie-Multilingual 357MHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,004-11/113,881Jan 2026N/A
8181
Zyphra logoZyphra
Zonos-v0.1GitHubOpen Weights
1,0000/05,134Feb 2025$20.0 /1M chars
8282-84
Murf AI logoMurf AI
Murf Speech Gen 2
980-11/115,409Jul 2024$100.0 /1M chars
8382-85
LMNT logoLMNT
LMNT
976-12/124,163Dec 2023$49.0 /1M chars
8482-85
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
VibeVoice 1.5B
970-13/132,240Aug 2025N/A
8582-85
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
VibeVoice 7BHugging FaceOpen Weights
969-13/132,212Aug 2025N/A
8686-87
OpenVoice logoOpenVoice
OpenVoice v2Hugging FaceOpen Weights
954-13/133,182—Apr 2024$8.3 /1M chars
8786-89
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie Multilingual
941-14/142,106Apr 2025N/A
8886-89
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen3 TTS Flash
941-14/142,221Sept 2025$10.0 /1M chars
8987-91
Neuphonic logoNeuphonic
Neuphonic TTS
935-13/132,450Oct 2024$20.8 /1M chars
9089-92
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen3 TTS
927-13/132,952-N/A
9189-93
KugelAudio logoKugelAudio
Kugel 3
924-13/134,141-N/A
9290-93
Coqui logoCoqui
XTTS v2Hugging FaceOpen Weights
920-14/142,721—Nov 2023$40.4 /1M chars
9391-93
Google logoGoogle
WaveNet
912-12/126,757Sept 2016$16.0 /1M chars
9494-97
Rime logoRime
Mist V2
897-14/142,979Mar 2025$31.1 /1M chars
9594-98
StyleTTS logoStyleTTS
StyleTTS 2GitHubOpen Weights
892-15/152,595—Jun 2023$2.8 /1M chars
9694-98
Google logoGoogle
Neural2
890-12/126,954Jun 2022$16.0 /1M chars
9794-98
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Neural
888-14/142,904Jul 2019$16.0 /1M chars
9895-98
Google logoGoogle
Standard
880-12/127,027Aug 2018$4.0 /1M chars
9998-99
Noiz logoNoiz
Noiz TTS
867-15/151,880Nov 2025N/A
100100
MetaVoice logoMetaVoice
MetaVoice v1GitHubOpen Weights
844-17/171,438—Feb 2024N/A
101101
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Standard
817-15/153,580Nov 2016$4.0 /1M chars

1 API Pricing reflects the cost to generate 1M characters on the model creator's API with the model's default settings

Frequently Asked Questions

Sonic 3.6 currently leads the Text to Speech Arena with an Elo score of 1283.

The top Text to Speech models by Elo rating are: 1. Sonic 3.6 (Elo 1283), 2. Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus (Elo 1238), 3. Simba 3.2 (Elo 1238), 4. Luna TTS (Elo 1223), and 5. v3 Conversational (Elo 1219). Rankings are based on blind user votes in the Speech Arena.

Models are ranked using an Elo rating system derived from user votes in blind comparisons in the Speech Arena. Users listen to pairs of speech samples generated from the same text and choose which sounds more natural. Higher Elo scores indicate a model produces speech preferred more often by listeners. Vote in the Speech Arena

Kokoro 82M v1.0 is the most affordable at $0.65 per 1M characters with an Elo score of 1060. Other affordable options include StyleTTS 2 at $2.82 per 1M characters.

Fish Audio S2 Pro is the highest-ranked open weights model on the Text to Speech Leaderboard with an Elo score of 1125. There are 15 open weights models out of 101 total.

The top 5 open weights Text to Speech models are: 1. Fish Audio S2 Pro (Elo 1125), 2. Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026) (Elo 1102), 3. Voxtral TTS (Elo 1082), 4. Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026) (Elo 1066), and 5. Kokoro 82M v1.0 (Elo 1060).

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