Range	Creator	Model	Elo	95% CI	Samples	Released	API Pricing 1
1	1	Alibaba	Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus	1178	-16/16	1,269	Sept 2026	$19.3 /1M chars
2	2-3	ElevenLabs	Eleven v4	1157	-16/16	1,483	Sept 2026	$80.0 /1M chars
3	3-4	Inworld	Realtime TTS-2	1142	-15/15	2,316	Aug 2026	$20.8 /1M chars
4	3-5	Cartesia	Sonic 3.6	1138	-15/15	2,334	Aug 2026	$49.0 /1M chars
5	4-6	Alibaba	Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus	1124	-15/15	2,092	Sept 2026	$19.3 /1M chars
6	5-6	Cartesia	Sonic 3.5	1119	-13/13	4,260	May 2026	$49.0 /1M chars
7	7-9	ElevenLabs	Eleven v3	1073	-13/13	3,661	Feb 2026	$100.0 /1M chars
8	7-10	StepFun	StepAudio 2.5 TTS	1070	-14/14	3,001	Apr 2026	$85.0 /1M chars
9	7-10	Inworld	Realtime TTS-2 Flash	1070	-14/14	2,443	Aug 2026	$10.4 /1M chars
10	8-13	Google	Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS	1057	-15/15	2,392	Sept 2026	$11.0 /1M chars
11	8-13	ElevenLabs	v3 Conversational	1055	-15/15	2,073	Aug 2026	$50.0 /1M chars
12	10-14	SpaceXAI	SpaceXAI TTS	1052	-14/14	2,734	Mar 2026	$15.0 /1M chars
13	10-14	Google	Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS	1048	-15/15	2,368	Sept 2026	$16.5 /1M chars
14	12-14	SpeechifyAI	Simba 3.0	1038	-14/14	2,589	Feb 2026	$6.6 /1M chars
15	15-20	MiniMax	Speech 2.8 HD	1023	-14/14	3,240	Feb 2026	$100.0 /1M chars
16	15-21	BreezeBlue	Breeze TTS 2Open Weights	1021	-15/15	2,092	Aug 2026	$34.0 /1M chars
17	15-20	MiniMax	Speech 2.8 Turbo	1021	-13/13	3,396	Feb 2026	$60.0 /1M chars
18	15-23	Fish Audio	Fish Audio S2.1 Pro	1014	-14/14	2,516	Jun 2026	$15.0 /1M chars
19	15-24	Gradium	Gradium TTS (Aug 2026)	1014	-15/15	2,115	Aug 2026	$47.2 /1M chars
20	15-24	Fish Audio	OpenAudio S1 MiniOpen Weights	1013	-14/14	2,528	Jun 2025	$15.0 /1M chars
21	18-24	Fish Audio	Fish Audio S2 ProOpen Weights	1008	-13/13	3,820	Mar 2026	$15.0 /1M chars
22	18-26	Mistral	Voxtral TTSOpen Weights	1004	-14/14	2,503	Mar 2026	$16.0 /1M chars
23	18-26	ElevenLabs	Multilingual v2	1001	-14/14	3,269	Aug 2023	$100.0 /1M chars
24	24	Fish Audio	OpenAudio S1	1000	0/0	5,309	Jun 2025	$15.0 /1M chars
25	22-26	ElevenLabs	Flash v2.5	992	-14/14	3,259	Dec 2024	$50.0 /1M chars
26	22-27	Fish Audio	Fish Audio S1	991	-14/14	3,319	Oct 2025	$15.0 /1M chars
27	26-28	ElevenLabs	Turbo v2.5	978	-14/14	2,577	Jul 2024	$50.0 /1M chars
28	27-29	KugelAudio	Kugel 3	972	-14/14	3,838	Jun 2026	N/A
29	27-29	Boson AI	Higgs Audio V3 TTSOpen Weights	963	-15/15	2,224	Jun 2026	$15.0 /1M chars
30	30-34	Cartesia	Sonic 3	947	-15/15	2,625	Oct 2025	$49.0 /1M chars
31	30-35	Soniox	Soniox TTS Real-Time v2	944	-15/15	2,056	Aug 2026	$14.2 /1M chars
32	30-35	NVIDIA	Magpie TTS ZeroshotOpen Weights	940	-17/17	1,023	Jul 2026	N/A
33	30-35	Krafton	Raon SpeechLM	937	-15/15	2,078	Apr 2026	N/A
34	30-35	Resemble AI	ChatterboxOpen Weights	934	-15/15	2,597	May 2025	$25.0 /1M chars
35	31-35	Noiz	Noiz TTS	930	-15/15	2,138	Nov 2025	N/A
36	36	Smallest.ai	Lightning v3.1	895	-16/16	2,221	Mar 2026	$25.0 /1M chars
37	37	Coqui	XTTS v2Open Weights	840	-17/17	2,394	Nov 2023	$40.4 /1M chars
38	38	OpenVoice	OpenVoice v2Open Weights	808	-18/18	2,097	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

² Open Weights includes models that can be self-hosted using downloadable model weights or a provider-supplied inference runtime. Open Weights Commercial includes models whose published license permits commercial use, including use subject to license conditions (e.g. an NVIDIA AI Enterprise subscription), and excludes models that require a separately negotiated commercial agreement.