Controlled Voice Arena LeaderboardArtificial Analysis
Compare 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 |  Cartesia | Sonic 3.6 | 1,123 | -16/16 | 1,800 | Aug 2026 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 2 | 2 | Cartesia | Sonic 3.5 | 1,102 | -13/13 | 3,376 | May 2026 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 3 | 3-5 |  ElevenLabs | Eleven v3 | 1,059 | -13/13 | 2,926 | Feb 2026 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 4 | 3-7 |  StepFun | StepAudio 2.5 TTS | 1,049 | -14/14 | 2,275 | Apr 2026 | $85.0 /1M chars |
| 5 | 3-7 |  Inworld | Realtime TTS 1.5 Max | 1,047 | -14/14 | 2,243 | Jan 2026 | $26.0 /1M chars |
| 6 | 4-7 | Inworld | Realtime TTS-2 - Research Preview | 1,044 | -13/13 | 2,333 | May 2026 | $20.8 /1M chars |
| 7 | 4-8 |  SpaceXAI | SpaceXAI TTS | 1,040 | -13/13 | 2,270 | Mar 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 8 | 7-10 |  MiniMax | Speech 2.8 HD | 1,027 | -13/13 | 2,962 | Feb 2026 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 9 | 8-10 | MiniMax | Speech 2.8 Turbo | 1,026 | -13/13 | 2,830 | Feb 2026 | $60.0 /1M chars |
| 10 | 8-14 |  SpeechifyAI | Simba 3.0 | 1,017 | -13/13 | 2,288 | Feb 2026 | $12.5 /1M chars |
| 11 | 10-15 |  Mistral | Voxtral TTS  Open Weights | 1,011 | -13/13 | 2,272 | Mar 2026 | $16.0 /1M chars |
| 12 | 10-16 |  Soniox | Soniox TTS Real-Time v1 | 1,011 | -13/13 | 2,688 | Jul 2026 | $14.2 /1M chars |
| 13 | 10-18 | ElevenLabs | Multilingual v2 | 1,007 | -13/13 | 2,772 | Aug 2023 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 14 | 11-18 |  Fish Audio | Fish Audio S2 Pro Open Weights | 1,004 | -12/12 | 3,278 | Mar 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 15 | 15 | Fish Audio | OpenAudio S1 | 1,000 | 0/0 | 4,222 | Jun 2025 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 16 | 11-20 | Inworld | Realtime TTS 1.5 Mini | 998 | -14/14 | 2,287 | Jan 2026 | $10.4 /1M chars |
| 17 | 13-20 | Fish Audio | OpenAudio S1 Mini | 997 | -13/13 | 2,413 | Jun 2025 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 18 | 13-20 | Fish Audio | Fish Audio S2.1 Pro | 996 | -13/13 | 2,300 | Jun 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 19 | 15-20 | Fish Audio | Fish Audio S1 | 990 | -13/13 | 3,084 | Oct 2025 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 20 | 15-21 |  Gradium | Gradium TTS Beta | 987 | -14/14 | 1,772 | Jul 2026 | $47.2 /1M chars |
| 21 | 21-24 | ElevenLabs | Turbo v2.5 | 973 | -13/13 | 2,601 | Jul 2024 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 22 | 21-24 | ElevenLabs | Flash v2.5 | 972 | -13/13 | 2,764 | Dec 2024 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 23 | 21-25 | Gradium | Gradium TTS | 967 | -14/14 | 2,211 | Jun 2026 | $47.2 /1M chars |
| 24 | 21-25 |  Smallest.ai | Lightning V3.1 Pro TTS (Jun 2026) | 964 | -13/13 | 2,386 | Jun 2026 | $19.5 /1M chars |
| 25 | 23-25 |  Boson AI | Higgs Audio V3 TTS Open Weights | 955 | -14/14 | 2,128 | Jun 2026 | N/A |
| 26 | 26-28 | Cartesia | Sonic 3 | 933 | -13/13 | 2,788 | Oct 2025 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 27 | 26-29 |  Noiz | Noiz TTS | 927 | -14/14 | 2,078 | Nov 2025 | N/A |
| 28 | 26-29 |  Resemble AI | Chatterbox  Open Weights | 925 | -13/13 | 2,680 | May 2025 | $25.0 /1M chars |
| 29 | 27-30 |  Bland AI | Bland Speech v3 | 917 | -12/12 | 4,586 | Aug 2026 | $40.0 /1M chars |
| 30 | 29-31 |  Microsoft | VibeVoice 7B Open Weights | 912 | -13/13 | 2,629 | Aug 2025 | N/A |
| 31 | 30-31 |  LMNT | LMNT | 900 | -14/14 | 2,433 | Dec 2023 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 32 | 32 | Smallest.ai | Lightning v3.1 | 843 | -14/14 | 2,561 | Mar 2026 | $25.0 /1M chars |
| 33 | 33-34 |  Coqui | XTTS v2 Open Weights | 808 | -15/15 | 2,578 | Nov 2023 | $40.4 /1M chars |
| 34 | 33-34 |  OpenVoice | OpenVoice v2 Open Weights | 800 | -16/16 | 2,342 | 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