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
1,285-17/171,768Aug 2026$49.0 /1M chars
22-3
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus
1,240-14/142,230Jul 2026$27.6 /1M chars
32-3
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
Simba 3.2
1,240-14/142,194Jul 2026$10.0 /1M chars
44-7
VUI Labs logoVUI Labs
Luna TTS
1,221-14/142,294Jun 2026$80.0 /1M chars
54-7
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
v3 Conversational
1,220-16/161,754Aug 2026$50.0 /1M chars
64-8
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
1,212-12/123,553Apr 2026$18.3 /1M chars
74-10
StepFun logoStepFun
StepAudio 2.5 TTS
1,208-14/141,954Jun 2026$85.0 /1M chars
86-10
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic 3.5
1,203-12/123,029May 2026$49.0 /1M chars
97-11
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS 1.5 Max
1,196-13/132,675Jan 2026$26.0 /1M chars
107-12
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning V3.1 Pro (Jul 2026)
1,195-15/151,783Jul 2026$19.5 /1M chars
119-13
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS-2 - Research Preview
1,187-12/122,779May 2026$20.8 /1M chars
1211-14
Soniox logoSoniox
Soniox TTS Real-Time v2
1,183-11/115,611Aug 2026$14.2 /1M chars
1311-14
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Eleven v3
1,179-11/114,432Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1412-14
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.8 HD
1,173-11/114,548Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1515-20
Murf AI logoMurf AI
Falcon 2
1,154-15/151,482Jul 2026$10.0 /1M chars
1615-20
Gradium logoGradium
Gradium TTS Beta
1,153-15/151,469Jul 2026$47.2 /1M chars
1715-19
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.8 Turbo
1,152-11/114,433Feb 2026$60.0 /1M chars
1815-20
async logoasync
Async Flash v1.5
1,149-13/132,168May 2026$10.1 /1M chars
1915-24
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
Fish Audio S2.1 Pro
1,144-13/132,134Jun 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2016-25
StepFun logoStepFun
Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)
1,141-13/132,284Feb 2026$40.0 /1M chars
2119-27
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.6 HD
1,136-11/114,066Oct 2025$100.0 /1M chars
2219-29
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning V3.1 Pro TTS (Jun 2026)
1,135-13/132,088Jun 2026$19.5 /1M chars
2319-29
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS 1.5 Mini
1,133-12/123,066Jan 2026$10.4 /1M chars
2420-29
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
Azure HD 2.5
1,132-12/122,563Mar 2026$22.0 /1M chars
2520-29
async logoasync
Async Pro v1.0
1,128-13/132,014May 2026$20.2 /1M chars
2621-29
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.6 Turbo
1,127-11/114,440Oct 2025$60.0 /1M chars
2721-29
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
Fish Audio S2 ProHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,125-13/132,179Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2822-29
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
Simba 3.0
1,124-12/122,574Feb 2026$12.5 /1M chars
2921-31
SpaceXAI logoSpaceXAI
SpaceXAI TTS
1,122-16/161,028Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
3029-34
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech-02-HD
1,112-11/114,457Mar 2025$100.0 /1M chars
3130-34
OpenAI logoOpenAI
TTS-1 HD
1,108-11/113,605Nov 2023$30.0 /1M chars
3230-37
StepFun logoStepFun
Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,105-13/131,991Feb 2026N/A
3330-35
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Turbo v2.5
1,104-10/107,335Jul 2024$50.0 /1M chars
3430-35
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Multilingual v2
1,104-10/107,787Aug 2023$100.0 /1M chars
3532-40
OpenAI logoOpenAI
TTS-1
1,094-11/116,520Nov 2023$15.0 /1M chars
3632-42
Gradium logoGradium
Gradium TTS
1,094-13/131,899Jun 2026$47.2 /1M chars
3732-42
Resemble AI logoResemble AI
Chatterbox HD
1,093-13/132,369—May 2025$40.0 /1M chars
3835-44
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTS
1,090-12/123,196Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
3935-44
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech-02-Turbo
1,084-11/113,914Mar 2025$60.0 /1M chars
4035-44
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Flash v2.5
1,084-11/115,979Dec 2024$50.0 /1M chars
4138-48
Google logoGoogle
Studio
1,081-11/114,702Feb 2023$160.0 /1M chars
4236-49
Mistral logoMistral
Voxtral TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,081-13/132,150Mar 2026$16.0 /1M chars
4338-49
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
OpenAudio S1
1,079-11/114,625Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
4438-52
Hithink logoHithink
Speech 2.6
1,078-13/131,812Jul 2026N/A
4539-55
OpenAI logoOpenAI
GPT-Realtime-2
1,073-13/131,922May 2026$191.6 /1M chars
4641-54
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic 3
1,072-11/113,663Oct 2025$49.0 /1M chars
4741-55
Bland AI logoBland AI
Bland Speech v3
1,071-12/123,540Aug 2026$40.0 /1M chars
4839-56
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya 2 Flash
1,071-14/141,786Jul 2026N/A
4941-58
Google logoGoogle
Journey
1,069-13/132,280Dec 2023$160.0 /1M chars
5045-59
MiniMax logoMiniMax
T2A-01-HD
1,066-11/115,132Jan 2025$50.0 /1M chars
5145-60
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
SIMBA 1.6
1,065-12/122,329Oct 2024$10.0 /1M chars
5244-61
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,065-13/132,016Feb 2026N/A
5345-60
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Generative
1,064-11/113,943May 2024$30.0 /1M chars
5445-63
Xiaomi logoXiaomi
MiMo-V2.5-TTS
1,061-13/131,996-N/A
5548-63
Kokoro logoKokoro
Kokoro 82M v1.0Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,060-11/115,595Jan 2025$0.7 /1M chars
5649-64
Rime logoRime
Coda
1,057-13/132,188May 2026$50.0 /1M chars
5750-64
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)
1,057-12/122,963Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
5850-64
Hume AI logoHume AI
Octave 2
1,057-12/123,181Oct 2025$87.5 /1M chars
5950-64
Google logoGoogle
Chirp 3: HD
1,056-11/113,537Mar 2025$30.0 /1M chars
6050-67
Deepgram logoDeepgram
Flux TTS
1,054-14/141,964Aug 2026$45.0 /1M chars
6150-68
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya 2 Global
1,053-14/141,712Jul 2026N/A
6250-70
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
OpenAudio S1 Mini
1,050-19/191,777Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
6355-68
async logoasync
Async Flash v1.0
1,050-11/114,147Jul 2025$10.1 /1M chars
6456-69
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya1Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,046-12/123,447Jun 2025N/A
6559-71
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Long-Form
1,043-13/131,988Nov 2023$100.0 /1M chars
6660-71
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic English (Oct 2024)
1,042-12/123,533Oct 2024$49.0 /1M chars
6760-73
Boson AI logoBoson AI
Higgs Audio V3 TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,042-13/131,979Jun 2026N/A
6862-73
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)
1,039-12/122,564Dec 2025$18.3 /1M chars
6964-73
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
SIMBA 1.0
1,036-11/115,101Jun 2024$10.0 /1M chars
7065-74
MiniMax logoMiniMax
T2A-01-Turbo
1,033-11/115,234Jan 2025$30.0 /1M chars
7163-76
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
Azure Neural
1,031-19/191,226Sept 2018$15.0 /1M chars
7268-76
Hume AI logoHume AI
Octave TTS
1,029-11/114,982Feb 2025$87.5 /1M chars
7367-76
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
MAI-Voice-1
1,029-13/132,259Apr 2026N/A
7470-76
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning v3.1
1,024-12/122,303Mar 2026$25.0 /1M chars
7572-76
Resemble AI logoResemble AI
ChatterboxGitHubOpen Weights
1,020-11/114,892May 2025$25.0 /1M chars
7671-76
Xiaomi logoXiaomi
MiMo-V2-TTS
1,019-13/131,848Mar 2026N/A
7776-80
Krafton logoKrafton
Raon SpeechLM
1,006-14/142,008-N/A
7877-80
Rime logoRime
Arcana v3
1,004-13/132,346Feb 2026$50.0 /1M chars
7977-80
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie-Multilingual 357MHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,004-12/123,879Jan 2026N/A
8080
Zyphra logoZyphra
Zonos-v0.1GitHubOpen Weights
1,0000/05,125Feb 2025$20.0 /1M chars
8181-83
Murf AI logoMurf AI
Murf Speech Gen 2
981-11/115,394Jul 2024$100.0 /1M chars
8281-84
LMNT logoLMNT
LMNT
977-12/124,150Dec 2023$49.0 /1M chars
8381-84
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
VibeVoice 1.5B
971-13/132,215Aug 2025N/A
8482-85
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
VibeVoice 7BHugging FaceOpen Weights
966-13/132,196Aug 2025N/A
8584-85
OpenVoice logoOpenVoice
OpenVoice v2Hugging FaceOpen Weights
955-13/133,169—Apr 2024$8.3 /1M chars
8685-88
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie Multilingual
942-14/142,093Apr 2025N/A
8786-88
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen3 TTS Flash
940-14/142,203Sept 2025$10.0 /1M chars
8886-89
Neuphonic logoNeuphonic
Neuphonic TTS
936-14/142,434Oct 2024$20.8 /1M chars
8988-92
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen3 TTS
925-13/132,943-N/A
9089-92
KugelAudio logoKugelAudio
Kugel 3
922-13/134,088-N/A
9189-92
Coqui logoCoqui
XTTS v2Hugging FaceOpen Weights
920-14/142,709—Nov 2023$40.4 /1M chars
9289-92
Google logoGoogle
WaveNet
913-12/126,740Sept 2016$16.0 /1M chars
9392-96
Rime logoRime
Mist V2
899-14/142,966Mar 2025$31.1 /1M chars
9493-97
StyleTTS logoStyleTTS
StyleTTS 2GitHubOpen Weights
892-15/152,577—Jun 2023$2.8 /1M chars
9593-97
Google logoGoogle
Neural2
890-12/126,945Jun 2022$16.0 /1M chars
9693-97
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Neural
887-14/142,890Jul 2019$16.0 /1M chars
9794-97
Google logoGoogle
Standard
880-12/127,012Aug 2018$4.0 /1M chars
9898
Noiz logoNoiz
Noiz TTS
865-15/151,862Nov 2025N/A
9999
MetaVoice logoMetaVoice
MetaVoice v1GitHubOpen Weights
844-17/171,426—Feb 2024N/A
100100
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Standard
817-15/153,572Nov 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 1285.

The top Text to Speech models by Elo rating are: 1. Sonic 3.6 (Elo 1285), 2. Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus (Elo 1240), 3. Simba 3.2 (Elo 1240), 4. Luna TTS (Elo 1221), and 5. v3 Conversational (Elo 1220). 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 100 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 1105), 3. Voxtral TTS (Elo 1081), 4. Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026) (Elo 1065), and 5. Kokoro 82M v1.0 (Elo 1060).

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