Controlled Voice Arena LeaderboardArtificial Analysis
Compare Text to Speech (TTS) models using the same 8 cloned voices (4 US, 4 UK).
Range | Creator | Model | Elo | 95% CI | Samples | Released | API Pricing 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1-2 |  Inworld | Realtime TTS-2 | 1123 | -16/16 | 1,292 | Aug 2026 | $20.8 /1M chars |
| 2 | 1-2 |  Cartesia | Sonic 3.6 | 1119 | -15/15 | 1,993 | Aug 2026 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 3 | 3 | Cartesia | Sonic 3.5 | 1096 | -12/12 | 3,791 | May 2026 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 4 | 4-5 | Inworld | Realtime TTS-2 Flash - Research Preview | 1075 | -15/15 | 1,621 | Aug 2026 | $10.4 /1M chars |
| 5 | 5-6 |  ElevenLabs | Eleven v3 | 1062 | -12/12 | 3,244 | Feb 2026 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 6 | 5-6 |  StepFun | StepAudio 2.5 TTS | 1052 | -13/13 | 2,558 | Apr 2026 | $85.0 /1M chars |
| 7 | 7-8 |  SpaceXAI | SpaceXAI TTS | 1039 | -13/13 | 2,524 | Mar 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 8 | 7-9 |  MiniMax | Speech 2.8 HD | 1028 | -12/12 | 3,188 | Feb 2026 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 9 | 7-11 | ElevenLabs | v3 Conversational | 1026 | -14/14 | 1,626 | Aug 2026 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 10 | 9-14 | MiniMax | Speech 2.8 Turbo | 1015 | -12/12 | 3,207 | Feb 2026 | $60.0 /1M chars |
| 11 | 9-15 |  SpeechifyAI | Simba 3.0 | 1015 | -13/13 | 2,553 | Feb 2026 | $12.5 /1M chars |
| 12 | 10-20 |  BreezeBlue | Breeze TTS 2  Open Weights | 1007 | -15/15 | 1,546 | Aug 2026 | $34.0 /1M chars |
| 13 | 10-20 |  Mistral | Voxtral TTS Open Weights | 1005 | -13/13 | 2,554 | Mar 2026 | $16.0 /1M chars |
| 14 | 10-20 | ElevenLabs | Multilingual v2 | 1005 | -12/12 | 3,140 | Aug 2023 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 15 | 11-20 |  Fish Audio | Fish Audio S2 Pro Open Weights | 1003 | -12/12 | 3,765 | Mar 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 16 | 16 | Fish Audio | OpenAudio S1 | 1000 | 0/0 | 5,013 | Jun 2025 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 17 | 12-20 | Fish Audio | OpenAudio S1 Mini | 1000 | -13/13 | 2,592 | Jun 2025 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 18 | 12-20 |  Gradium | Gradium TTS (Aug 2026) | 1000 | -14/14 | 2,134 | Aug 2026 | $47.2 /1M chars |
| 19 | 12-20 | Fish Audio | Fish Audio S2.1 Pro | 999 | -13/13 | 2,556 | Jun 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 20 | 14-20 | Fish Audio | Fish Audio S1 | 993 | -12/12 | 3,398 | Oct 2025 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 21 | 21-24 | ElevenLabs | Flash v2.5 | 974 | -12/12 | 3,204 | Dec 2024 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 22 | 21-25 | ElevenLabs | Turbo v2.5 | 970 | -13/13 | 2,796 | Jul 2024 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 23 | 21-25 |  KugelAudio | Kugel 3 | 968 | -12/12 | 4,728 | Jun 2026 | N/A |
| 24 | 21-25 |  Smallest.ai | Lightning V3.1 Pro TTS (Jun 2026) | 965 | -13/13 | 2,745 | Jun 2026 | $19.5 /1M chars |
| 25 | 22-25 |  Boson AI | Higgs Audio V3 TTS Open Weights | 957 | -13/13 | 2,448 | Jun 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 26 | 26-29 | Cartesia | Sonic 3 | 936 | -13/13 | 2,988 | Oct 2025 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 27 | 26-31 |  Resemble AI | Chatterbox  Open Weights | 931 | -13/13 | 2,865 | May 2025 | $25.0 /1M chars |
| 28 | 26-32 |  NVIDIA | Magpie TTS ZeroshotOpen Weights | 928 | -16/16 | 1,061 | Jul 2026 | N/A |
| 29 | 26-32 |  Noiz | Noiz TTS | 924 | -13/13 | 2,296 | Nov 2025 | N/A |
| 30 | 27-32 |  Microsoft | VibeVoice 7B Open Weights | 919 | -13/13 | 2,809 | Aug 2025 | N/A |
| 31 | 27-32 |  Krafton | Raon SpeechLM | 918 | -15/15 | 1,619 | Apr 2026 | N/A |
| 32 | 27-32 |  Soniox | Soniox TTS Real-Time v2 | 917 | -15/15 | 1,590 | Aug 2026 | $14.2 /1M chars |
| 33 | 33 | Smallest.ai | Lightning v3.1 | 886 | -14/14 | 2,500 | Mar 2026 | $25.0 /1M chars |
| 34 | 34 |  Coqui | XTTS v2 Open Weights | 824 | -14/14 | 2,807 | Nov 2023 | $40.4 /1M chars |
| 35 | 35 |  OpenVoice | OpenVoice v2 Open Weights | 792 | -16/16 | 2,487 | Apr 2024 | $8.3 /1M chars |
1 API Pricing reflects the cost to generate 1M characters on the model creator's API with the model's default settings