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
11-3
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
Simba 3.2
1,232-15/151,911Jul 2026$10.0 /1M chars
21-3
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus
1,229-15/151,890Jul 2026$27.6 /1M chars
31-5
VUI Labs logoVUI Labs
Luna TTS
1,218-15/151,931Jun 2026$80.0 /1M chars
43-6
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
1,209-13/133,236Apr 2026$18.3 /1M chars
53-8
StepFun logoStepFun
StepAudio 2.5 TTS
1,205-15/151,590Jun 2026$85.0 /1M chars
64-8
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic 3.5
1,202-13/132,703May 2026$49.0 /1M chars
75-9
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS 1.5 Max
1,192-13/132,349Jan 2026$26.0 /1M chars
85-10
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning V3.1 Pro (Jul 2026)
1,191-16/161,453Jul 2026$19.5 /1M chars
97-10
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS-2 - Research Preview
1,188-13/132,412May 2026$20.8 /1M chars
109-11
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.8 HD
1,177-12/124,245Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1110-11
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Eleven v3
1,172-12/124,114Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1212-14
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.8 Turbo
1,153-12/124,131Feb 2026$60.0 /1M chars
1312-18
Gradium logoGradium
Gradium TTS Beta
1,150-16/161,126Jul 2026$47.2 /1M chars
1412-17
async logoasync
Async Flash v1.5
1,149-14/141,820May 2026$10.1 /1M chars
1512-20
StepFun logoStepFun
Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)
1,141-13/131,953Feb 2026$40.0 /1M chars
1612-21
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
Fish Audio S2.1 Pro
1,139-14/141,794Jun 2026$15.0 /1M chars
1712-21
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning V3.1 Pro TTS (Jun 2026)
1,139-14/141,760Jun 2026$19.5 /1M chars
1815-22
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.6 HD
1,134-12/123,792Oct 2025$100.0 /1M chars
1915-24
Inworld logoInworld
Realtime TTS 1.5 Mini
1,130-12/122,761Jan 2026$10.4 /1M chars
2015-24
async logoasync
Async Pro v1.0
1,129-14/141,733May 2026$20.2 /1M chars
2118-24
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
Azure HD 2.5
1,126-13/132,225Mar 2026$22.0 /1M chars
2218-25
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech 2.6 Turbo
1,122-12/124,164Oct 2025$60.0 /1M chars
2318-25
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
Fish Audio S2 ProHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,122-13/131,853Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2419-27
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
Simba 3.0
1,120-13/132,211Feb 2026$12.5 /1M chars
2522-30
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech-02-HD
1,112-12/124,188Mar 2025$100.0 /1M chars
2624-30
StepFun logoStepFun
Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,108-14/141,714Feb 2026N/A
2722-30
SpaceXAI logoSpaceXAI
SpaceXAI TTS
1,107-18/18721Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2825-30
OpenAI logoOpenAI
TTS-1 HD
1,101-12/123,362Nov 2023$30.0 /1M chars
2926-30
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Turbo v2.5
1,100-11/117,125Jul 2024$50.0 /1M chars
3026-30
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Multilingual v2
1,100-11/117,559Aug 2023$100.0 /1M chars
3131-37
Resemble AI logoResemble AI
Chatterbox HD
1,087-13/132,144—May 2025$40.0 /1M chars
3231-37
OpenAI logoOpenAI
TTS-1
1,086-11/116,282Nov 2023$15.0 /1M chars
3331-38
Gradium logoGradium
Gradium TTS
1,086-14/141,579Jun 2026$47.2 /1M chars
3431-41
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Flash v2.5
1,081-11/115,776Dec 2024$50.0 /1M chars
3531-42
MiniMax logoMiniMax
Speech-02-Turbo
1,081-12/123,711Mar 2025$60.0 /1M chars
3631-42
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTS
1,079-12/122,955Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
3731-44
Google logoGoogle
Studio
1,077-12/124,464Feb 2023$160.0 /1M chars
3834-49
Mistral logoMistral
Voxtral TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,073-13/131,882Mar 2026$16.0 /1M chars
3932-50
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya 2 Flash
1,072-15/151,520Jul 2026N/A
4034-48
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
OpenAudio S1
1,071-11/114,408Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
4134-50
Hithink logoHithink
Speech 2.6
1,071-14/141,550Jul 2026N/A
4234-50
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic 3
1,070-12/123,449Oct 2025$49.0 /1M chars
4337-51
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Generative
1,066-12/123,737May 2024$30.0 /1M chars
4437-52
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,065-13/131,787Feb 2026N/A
4537-53
Google logoGoogle
Journey
1,064-13/132,049Dec 2023$160.0 /1M chars
4638-53
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
SIMBA 1.6
1,063-13/132,103Oct 2024$10.0 /1M chars
4738-53
MiniMax logoMiniMax
T2A-01-HD
1,062-11/114,915Jan 2025$50.0 /1M chars
4838-54
OpenAI logoOpenAI
GPT-Realtime-2
1,061-14/141,619May 2026$191.6 /1M chars
4938-54
Xiaomi logoXiaomi
MiMo-V2.5-TTS
1,060-13/131,741-N/A
5043-54
Kokoro logoKokoro
Kokoro 82M v1.0Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,058-11/115,385Jan 2025$0.7 /1M chars
5143-58
Hume AI logoHume AI
Octave 2
1,055-12/122,981Oct 2025$87.5 /1M chars
5243-59
Rime logoRime
Coda
1,053-13/131,915May 2026$50.0 /1M chars
5346-60
Google logoGoogle
Chirp 3: HD
1,051-12/123,342Mar 2025$30.0 /1M chars
5449-61
async logoasync
Async Flash v1.0
1,048-12/123,954Jul 2025$10.1 /1M chars
5543-66
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
OpenAudio S1 Mini
1,046-20/201,777Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
5650-63
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)
1,046-13/132,708Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
5749-64
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya 2 Global
1,045-15/151,455Jul 2026N/A
5851-63
Maya Research logoMaya Research
Maya1Hugging FaceOpen Weights
1,043-12/123,255Jun 2025N/A
5951-66
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Long-Form
1,041-14/141,795Nov 2023$100.0 /1M chars
6052-66
Boson AI logoBoson AI
Higgs Audio V3 TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,040-14/141,735Jun 2026N/A
6154-67
Cartesia logoCartesia
Sonic English (Oct 2024)
1,037-12/123,318Oct 2024$49.0 /1M chars
6257-68
SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI
SIMBA 1.0
1,034-11/114,886Jun 2024$10.0 /1M chars
6355-68
Google logoGoogle
Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)
1,033-13/132,348Dec 2025$18.3 /1M chars
6459-68
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
MAI-Voice-1
1,030-13/132,027Apr 2026N/A
6561-68
MiniMax logoMiniMax
T2A-01-Turbo
1,028-11/115,037Jan 2025$30.0 /1M chars
6656-70
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
Azure Neural
1,027-19/191,226Sept 2018$15.0 /1M chars
6761-70
Hume AI logoHume AI
Octave TTS
1,025-12/124,792Feb 2025$87.5 /1M chars
6862-70
Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai
Lightning v3.1
1,024-13/132,088Mar 2026$25.0 /1M chars
6965-72
Resemble AI logoResemble AI
ChatterboxGitHubOpen Weights
1,017-12/124,693May 2025$25.0 /1M chars
7065-72
Xiaomi logoXiaomi
MiMo-V2-TTS
1,014-14/141,621Mar 2026N/A
7169-73
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie-Multilingual 357MHugging FaceOpen Weights
1,005-12/123,644Jan 2026N/A
7269-73
Rime logoRime
Arcana v3
1,005-13/132,086Feb 2026$50.0 /1M chars
7373
Zyphra logoZyphra
Zonos-v0.1GitHubOpen Weights
1,0000/04,908Feb 2025$20.0 /1M chars
7474-76
Murf AI logoMurf AI
Murf Speech Gen 2
976-12/125,193Jul 2024$100.0 /1M chars
7574-77
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
VibeVoice 1.5B
972-14/142,014Aug 2025N/A
7674-77
LMNT logoLMNT
LMNT
970-13/133,957Dec 2023$49.0 /1M chars
7774-78
Microsoft logoMicrosoft
VibeVoice 7BHugging FaceOpen Weights
964-14/141,979Aug 2025N/A
7877-79
OpenVoice logoOpenVoice
OpenVoice v2Hugging FaceOpen Weights
952-13/132,971—Apr 2024$8.3 /1M chars
7978-81
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
Magpie Multilingual
940-14/141,850Apr 2025N/A
8078-81
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen3 TTS Flash
939-14/141,970Sept 2025$10.0 /1M chars
8179-81
Neuphonic logoNeuphonic
Neuphonic TTS
934-14/142,200Oct 2024$20.8 /1M chars
8282-84
Alibaba logoAlibaba
Qwen3 TTS
919-13/132,679-N/A
8382-84
Coqui logoCoqui
XTTS v2Hugging FaceOpen Weights
917-15/152,449—Nov 2023$40.4 /1M chars
8483-84
Google logoGoogle
WaveNet
907-12/126,496Sept 2016$16.0 /1M chars
8585-88
Rime logoRime
Mist V2
891-15/152,736Mar 2025$31.1 /1M chars
8685-89
StyleTTS logoStyleTTS
StyleTTS 2GitHubOpen Weights
888-15/152,366—Jun 2023$2.8 /1M chars
8785-89
Google logoGoogle
Neural2
885-12/126,747Jun 2022$16.0 /1M chars
8885-89
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Neural
879-14/142,696Jul 2019$16.0 /1M chars
8987-89
Google logoGoogle
Standard
875-12/126,841Aug 2018$4.0 /1M chars
9089-90
Noiz logoNoiz
Noiz TTS
862-16/161,646Nov 2025N/A
9191
MetaVoice logoMetaVoice
MetaVoice v1GitHubOpen Weights
840-18/181,325—Feb 2024N/A
9292
Amazon logoAmazon
Polly Standard
813-16/163,521Nov 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

Simba 3.2 currently leads the Text to Speech Arena with an Elo score of 1232.

The top Text to Speech models by Elo rating are: 1. Simba 3.2 (Elo 1232), 2. Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus (Elo 1229), 3. Luna TTS (Elo 1218), 4. Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (Elo 1209), 5. StepAudio 2.5 TTS (Elo 1205). 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 1058. 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 1122. There are 15 open weights models out of 92 total.

The top 5 open weights Text to Speech models are: 1. Fish Audio S2 Pro (Elo 1122), 2. Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026) (Elo 1108), 3. Voxtral TTS (Elo 1073), 4. Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026) (Elo 1065), 5. Kokoro 82M v1.0 (Elo 1058).

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