Provider Voice 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
1,283-16/161,898Aug 2026$49.0 /1M chars
22-3
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
Simba 3.2
1,240-14/142,394Jul 2026$10.0 /1M chars
32-3
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus
1,240-14/142,418Jul 2026$27.6 /1M chars
44-7
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS-2 Flash - Research Preview
1,224-15/151,699Aug 2026$10.4 /1M chars
54-7
VUI Labs logoVUI Labs
Luna TTS
1,223-13/132,540Jun 2026$80.0 /1M chars
64-10
BreezeBlue logoBreezeBlue
Breeze TTS 2Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,212-17/171,249Aug 2026$34.0 /1M chars
74-10
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
v3 Conversational
1,210-15/151,894Aug 2026$50.0 /1M chars
86-10
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
1,207-12/123,672Apr 2026$18.3 /1M chars
96-12
StepFun logoStepFun
StepAudio 2.5 TTS
1,205-14/142,143Jun 2026$85.0 /1M chars
108-12
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS 1.5 Max
1,196-12/122,804Jan 2026$26.0 /1M chars
119-13
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic 3.5
1,193-12/123,191May 2026$49.0 /1M chars
129-14
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning V3.1 Pro (Jul 2026)
1,193-14/141,941Jul 2026$19.5 /1M chars
1311-15
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS-2 - Research Preview
1,183-12/122,917May 2026$20.8 /1M chars
1413-16
Soniox logoSoniox
Soniox TTS Real-Time v2
1,179-11/115,680Aug 2026$14.2 /1M chars
1513-16
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Eleven v3
1,178-11/114,540Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1614-16
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.8 HD
1,169-11/114,661Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1716-21
Murf AI logoMurf AI
Falcon 2
1,155-15/151,617Jul 2026$10.0 /1M chars
1817-21
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.8 Turbo
1,152-11/114,524Feb 2026$60.0 /1M chars
1917-22
Gradium logoGradium
Gradium TTS Beta
1,151-14/141,617Jul 2026$47.2 /1M chars
2017-24
async logoasync
Async Flash v1.5
1,144-13/132,309May 2026$10.1 /1M chars
2118-26
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
Fish Audio S2.1 Pro
1,141-13/132,254Jun 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2220-27
StepFun logoStepFun
Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)
1,138-12/122,382Feb 2026$40.0 /1M chars
2320-31
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.6 HD
1,133-11/114,134Oct 2025$100.0 /1M chars
2420-31
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning V3.1 Pro TTS (Jun 2026)
1,132-13/132,230Jun 2026$19.5 /1M chars
2521-31
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS 1.5 Mini
1,131-12/123,147Jan 2026$10.4 /1M chars
2621-31
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
Azure HD 2.5
1,131-12/122,646Mar 2026$22.0 /1M chars
2721-31
SpaceXAI logoSpaceXAI
SpaceXAI TTS
1,127-15/151,134Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2822-31
async logoasync
Async Pro v1.0
1,126-13/132,138May 2026$20.2 /1M chars
2923-31
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.6 Turbo
1,125-11/114,509Oct 2025$60.0 /1M chars
3023-31
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
Simba 3.0
1,124-12/122,693Feb 2026$12.5 /1M chars
3123-31
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
Fish Audio S2 ProHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,124-12/122,282Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
3232-34
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech-02-HD
1,111-11/114,520Mar 2025$100.0 /1M chars
3332-36
OpenAI logoOpenAI
TTS-1 HD
1,107-11/113,691Nov 2023$30.0 /1M chars
3432-38
StepFun logoStepFun
Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,100-13/132,049Feb 2026N/A
3533-38
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Turbo v2.5
1,099-10/107,394Jul 2024$50.0 /1M chars
3633-38
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Multilingual v2
1,099-10/107,857Aug 2023$100.0 /1M chars
3734-41
OpenAI logoOpenAI
TTS-1
1,091-10/106,599Nov 2023$15.0 /1M chars
3834-45
Resemble AI logoResemble AI
Chatterbox HD
1,091-12/122,426—May 2025$40.0 /1M chars
3937-46
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTS
1,085-12/123,237Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
4037-46
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech-02-Turbo
1,084-11/113,994Mar 2025$60.0 /1M chars
4137-47
Gradium logoGradium
Gradium TTS
1,083-13/132,013Jun 2026$47.2 /1M chars
4237-46
Google logoGoogle
Studio
1,081-11/114,771Feb 2023$160.0 /1M chars
4337-48
Mistral logoMistral
Voxtral TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,081-12/122,223Mar 2026$16.0 /1M chars
4439-49
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Flash v2.5
1,080-11/116,032Dec 2024$50.0 /1M chars
4537-51
Hithink logoHithink
Speech 2.6
1,079-13/131,944Jul 2026N/A
4639-51
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
OpenAudio S1
1,078-11/114,684Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
4741-58
Google logoGoogle
Journey
1,070-13/132,325Dec 2023$160.0 /1M chars
4842-57
Bland AI logoBland AI
Bland Speech v3
1,069-12/123,656Aug 2026$40.0 /1M chars
4942-60
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya 2 Flash
1,069-14/141,883Jul 2026N/A
5042-60
OpenAI logoOpenAI
GPT-Realtime-2
1,068-13/132,043May 2026$191.6 /1M chars
5146-58
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic 3
1,068-11/113,719Oct 2025$49.0 /1M chars
5247-61
MiniMax logoMiniMax
T2A-01-HD
1,065-11/115,188Jan 2025$50.0 /1M chars
5346-62
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,065-13/132,087Feb 2026N/A
5447-62
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
SIMBA 1.6
1,063-12/122,390Oct 2024$10.0 /1M chars
5547-63
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya 2 Global
1,062-14/141,816Jul 2026N/A
5647-62
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Generative
1,062-11/113,998May 2024$30.0 /1M chars
5747-64
Xiaomi logoXiaomi
MiMo-V2.5-TTS
1,058-13/132,078-N/A
5851-64
Kokoro logoKokoro
Kokoro 82M v1.0Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,057-11/115,655Jan 2025$0.7 /1M chars
5950-64
Rime logoRime
Coda
1,057-12/122,317May 2026$50.0 /1M chars
6051-64
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)
1,056-12/123,035Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
6152-64
Hume AI logoHume AI
Octave 2
1,055-12/123,241Oct 2025$87.5 /1M chars
6254-64
Google logoGoogle
Chirp 3: HD
1,054-11/113,607Mar 2025$30.0 /1M chars
6352-72
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
OpenAudio S1 Mini
1,049-19/191,777Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
6458-68
async logoasync
Async Flash v1.0
1,047-11/114,200Jul 2025$10.1 /1M chars
6562-72
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic English (Oct 2024)
1,042-12/123,598Oct 2024$49.0 /1M chars
6663-73
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya1Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,041-12/123,498Jun 2025N/A
6763-74
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Long-Form
1,041-13/132,040Nov 2023$100.0 /1M chars
6863-74
Boson AI logoBoson AI
Higgs Audio V3 TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,039-13/132,086Jun 2026$15.0 /1M chars
6965-74
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
SIMBA 1.0
1,036-11/115,162Jun 2024$10.0 /1M chars
7065-74
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)
1,033-12/122,620Dec 2025$18.3 /1M chars
7165-74
MiniMax logoMiniMax
T2A-01-Turbo
1,032-11/115,298Jan 2025$30.0 /1M chars
7265-76
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
MAI-Voice-1
1,031-12/122,333Apr 2026N/A
7364-77
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
Azure Neural
1,029-19/191,226Sept 2018$15.0 /1M chars
7468-77
Hume AI logoHume AI
Octave TTS
1,028-11/115,034Feb 2025$87.5 /1M chars
7570-77
Xiaomi logoXiaomi
MiMo-V2-TTS
1,021-13/131,903Mar 2026N/A
7672-77
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning v3.1
1,020-12/122,362Mar 2026$25.0 /1M chars
7773-77
Resemble AI logoResemble AI
ChatterboxGitHubOpen Weights
1,019-11/114,931May 2025$25.0 /1M chars
7878-81
Krafton logoKrafton
Raon SpeechLM
1,005-13/132,120-N/A
7978-81
Rime logoRime
Arcana v3
1,004-12/122,398Feb 2026$50.0 /1M chars
8078-81
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie-Multilingual 357MHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,002-11/113,921Jan 2026N/A
8181
Zyphra logoZyphra
Zonos-v0.1GitHubOpen Weights
1,0000/05,172Feb 2025$20.0 /1M chars
8282-84
Murf AI logoMurf AI
Murf Speech Gen 2
978-11/115,429Jul 2024$100.0 /1M chars
8382-85
LMNT logoLMNT
LMNT
977-12/124,199Dec 2023$49.0 /1M chars
8482-85
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
VibeVoice 7BHugging FaceOpen Weights
968-13/132,249Aug 2025N/A
8582-85
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
VibeVoice 1.5B
965-13/132,276Aug 2025N/A
8686-88
OpenVoice logoOpenVoice
OpenVoice v2Hugging FaceOpen Weights
952-13/133,209—Apr 2024$8.3 /1M chars
8786-89
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie Multilingual
939-14/142,128Apr 2025N/A
8886-89
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen3 TTS Flash
939-14/142,259Sept 2025$10.0 /1M chars
8987-91
Neuphonic logoNeuphonic
Neuphonic TTS
933-13/132,491Oct 2024$20.8 /1M chars
9089-93
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen3 TTS
923-13/133,009Jan 2026$20.0 /1M chars
9189-93
KugelAudio logoKugelAudio
Kugel 3
923-13/134,221-N/A
9289-93
Coqui logoCoqui
XTTS v2Hugging FaceOpen Weights
919-14/142,751—Nov 2023$40.4 /1M chars
9392-93
Google logoGoogle
WaveNet
911-12/126,781Sept 2016$4.0 /1M chars
9493-97
Rime logoRime
Mist V2
897-14/143,004Mar 2025$31.1 /1M chars
9594-98
StyleTTS logoStyleTTS
StyleTTS 2GitHubOpen Weights
890-15/152,628—Jun 2023$2.8 /1M chars
9694-98
Google logoGoogle
Neural2
889-12/126,990Jun 2022$16.0 /1M chars
9794-98
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Neural
888-14/142,927Jul 2019$16.0 /1M chars
9895-98
Google logoGoogle
Standard
880-12/127,043Aug 2018$4.0 /1M chars
9998-99
Noiz logoNoiz
Noiz TTS
867-15/151,958Nov 2025N/A
100100
MetaVoice logoMetaVoice
MetaVoice v1GitHubOpen Weights
842-17/171,464—Feb 2024N/A
101101
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Standard
818-15/153,602Nov 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. Simba 3.2 (Elo 1240), 3. Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus (Elo 1240), 4. Realtime TTS-2 Flash - Research Preview (Elo 1224), and 5. Luna TTS (Elo 1223). 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 1057. Other affordable options include StyleTTS 2 at $2.82 per 1M characters.

Breeze TTS 2 is the highest-ranked open weights model on the Text to Speech Leaderboard with an Elo score of 1212. There are 16 open weights models out of 101 total.

The top 5 open weights Text to Speech models are: 1. Breeze TTS 2 (Elo 1212), 2. Fish Audio S2 Pro (Elo 1124), 3. Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026) (Elo 1100), 4. Voxtral TTS (Elo 1081), and 5. Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026) (Elo 1065).

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