ARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS
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Artificial Analysis provider-voice text-to-speech arena, ranked by Elo. Higher is better. Snapshot 29 Oct 2026.
Higher Elo is better. The ± figure is Artificial Analysis’s 95% interval. Voices are the provider voices included in the arena.
Artificial Analysis text-to-speech leaderboard ↗Snapshot 29 Oct 2026. Rankings are Artificial Analysis’s, not scores from this newsroom.
| Rank | Model | Creator | Elo | Samples | Voices | Released | API price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eleven v4 Turbo | ElevenLabs | 1,336 ± 16 | 2,277 | 8 | Sep 2026 | $40.0 /1M chars |
| 2 | Eleven v4 | ElevenLabs | 1,334 ± 15 | 2,553 | 8 | Sep 2026 | $80.0 /1M chars |
| 3 | Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus | Alibaba | 1,305 ± 15 | 2,281 | 8 | Sep 2026 | $19.3 /1M chars |
| 4 | Sonic 3.6 | Cartesia | 1,296 ± 13 | 3,126 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 5 | Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS | 1,283 ± 13 | 3,394 | 8 | Sep 2026 | $16.5 /1M chars | |
| 6 | Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus | Alibaba | 1,269 ± 13 | 2,794 | 8 | Sep 2026 | $19.3 /1M chars |
| 7 | Realtime TTS-2 | Inworld | 1,267 ± 14 | 2,527 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $20.8 /1M chars |
| 8 | Lightning V3.1 Pro (Oct 2026) | Smallest.ai | 1,266 ± 16 | 1,813 | 8 | Oct 2026 | $19.5 /1M chars |
| 9 | Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS | 1,259 ± 13 | 3,382 | 8 | Sep 2026 | $11.0 /1M chars | |
| 10 | Simba 3.2 | SpeechifyAI | 1,249 ± 12 | 3,760 | 8 | Jul 2026 | $6.6 /1M chars |
| 11 | Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview | Fish Audio | 1,240 ± 14 | 2,544 | 8 | Oct 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 12 | Breeze TTS 2 | BreezeBlue | 1,228 ± 13 | 2,650 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $34.0 /1M chars |
| 13 | AssemblyAI-TTS-1 | AssemblyAI | 1,227 ± 16 | 1,632 | 8 | Oct 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 14 | Voxtral 3 TTS | Mistral | 1,223 ± 14 | 2,008 | 8 | Oct 2026 | $13.0 /1M chars |
| 15 | Realtime TTS-2 Flash | Inworld | 1,217 ± 12 | 2,993 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $10.4 /1M chars |
| 16 | v3 Conversational | ElevenLabs | 1,215 ± 12 | 3,145 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 17 | StepAudio 2.5 TTS (Aug 2026) | StepFun | 1,214 ± 13 | 2,598 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $85.0 /1M chars |
| 18 | Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS | 1,212 ± 11 | 4,586 | 7 | Apr 2026 | $18.3 /1M chars | |
| 19 | Luna TTS | VUI Labs | 1,205 ± 11 | 3,862 | 3 | Jun 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 20 | Sonic 3.5 | Cartesia | 1,194 ± 11 | 4,125 | 8 | May 2026 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 21 | Fish Audio S2.1 Pro (Oct 2026) | Fish Audio | 1,188 ± 13 | 2,411 | 8 | Oct 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 22 | Eleven v3 | ElevenLabs | 1,188 ± 10 | 5,388 | 8 | Feb 2026 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 23 | Ming-3.0-tts | Ant Group | 1,187 ± 13 | 2,418 | 3 | Oct 2026 | — /1M chars |
| 24 | Soniox TTS Real-Time v2 | Soniox | 1,182 ± 10 | 5,747 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $14.2 /1M chars |
| 25 | Gradium TTS (Sep 2026) | Gradium | 1,175 ± 13 | 2,534 | 8 | Sep 2026 | $47.8 /1M chars |
| 26 | Speech 2.8 HD | MiniMax | 1,174 ± 10 | 5,515 | 8 | Feb 2026 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 27 | SpaceXAI TTS | SpaceXAI | 1,157 ± 13 | 2,156 | 6 | Mar 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 28 | Falcon 2 | Murf AI | 1,156 ± 12 | 2,764 | 8 | Jul 2026 | $10.0 /1M chars |
| 29 | Gradium TTS (Aug 2026) | Gradium | 1,154 ± 12 | 2,773 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $47.2 /1M chars |
| 30 | Speech 2.8 Turbo | MiniMax | 1,153 ± 10 | 5,266 | 8 | Feb 2026 | $60.0 /1M chars |
| 31 | Azure HD 2.5 | Microsoft | 1,145 ± 11 | 3,238 | 8 | Mar 2026 | $22.0 /1M chars |
| 32 | Async Flash v1.5 | async | 1,141 ± 11 | 2,937 | 8 | May 2026 | $10.1 /1M chars |
| 33 | Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026) | StepFun | 1,137 ± 11 | 3,025 | 2 | Feb 2026 | $40.0 /1M chars |
| 34 | Async Pro v1.0 | async | 1,129 ± 12 | 2,792 | 8 | May 2026 | $20.2 /1M chars |
| 35 | Speech 2.6 HD | MiniMax | 1,127 ± 11 | 4,512 | 8 | Oct 2025 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 36 | Speech 2.6 Turbo | MiniMax | 1,122 ± 10 | 4,760 | 8 | Oct 2025 | $60.0 /1M chars |
| 37 | Simba 3.0 | SpeechifyAI | 1,117 ± 11 | 3,237 | 8 | Feb 2026 | $6.6 /1M chars |
| 38 | Chatterbox HD | Resemble AI | 1,110 ± 12 | 2,835 | 0 | May 2025 | $40.0 /1M chars |
| 39 | Fish Audio S2 Pro | Fish Audio | 1,109 ± 11 | 2,874 | 4 | Mar 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 40 | Speech-02-HD | MiniMax | 1,108 ± 11 | 4,817 | 4 | Mar 2025 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 41 | TTS-1 HD | OpenAI | 1,106 ± 11 | 3,949 | 6 | Nov 2023 | $30.0 /1M chars |
| 42 | Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026) | StepFun | 1,099 ± 12 | 2,498 | 2 | Feb 2026 | — /1M chars |
| 43 | Speech 2.6 | Hithink | 1,096 ± 12 | 2,679 | 8 | Jul 2026 | — /1M chars |
| 44 | Turbo v2.5 | ElevenLabs | 1,095 ± 10 | 7,189 | 8 | Jul 2024 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 45 | Multilingual v2 | ElevenLabs | 1,093 ± 10 | 7,633 | 8 | Aug 2023 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 46 | Speech-02-Turbo | MiniMax | 1,091 ± 11 | 4,142 | 4 | Mar 2025 | $60.0 /1M chars |
| 47 | Voxtral TTS | Mistral | 1,090 ± 12 | 2,604 | 3 | Mar 2026 | $16.0 /1M chars |
| 48 | TTS-1 | OpenAI | 1,089 ± 10 | 6,431 | 6 | Nov 2023 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 49 | OpenAudio S1 | Fish Audio | 1,087 ± 11 | 4,775 | 8 | Jun 2025 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 50 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTS | 1,085 ± 11 | 3,447 | 5 | Dec 2025 | $9.2 /1M chars | |
| 51 | Flash v2.5 | ElevenLabs | 1,077 ± 10 | 5,952 | 7 | Dec 2024 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 52 | Journey | 1,074 ± 12 | 2,442 | 1 | Dec 2023 | $160.0 /1M chars | |
| 53 | GPT-Realtime-2 | OpenAI | 1,073 ± 12 | 2,439 | 5 | May 2026 | $191.6 /1M chars |
| 54 | Studio | 1,073 ± 11 | 4,710 | 4 | Feb 2023 | $160.0 /1M chars | |
| 55 | T2A-01-HD | MiniMax | 1,072 ± 11 | 5,179 | 8 | Jan 2025 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 56 | Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025) | 1,068 ± 12 | 3,046 | 8 | Dec 2025 | $9.2 /1M chars | |
| 57 | Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026) | NVIDIA | 1,067 ± 12 | 2,390 | 5 | Feb 2026 | — /1M chars |
| 58 | Polly Generative | Amazon | 1,063 ± 11 | 3,914 | 4 | May 2024 | $30.0 /1M chars |
| 59 | Maya 2 Flash | Maya Research | 1,062 ± 13 | 2,290 | 4 | Jul 2026 | — /1M chars |
| 60 | Chirp 3: HD | 1,062 ± 11 | 3,533 | 8 | Mar 2025 | $30.0 /1M chars | |
| 61 | Kokoro 82M v1.0 | Kokoro | 1,062 ± 11 | 5,539 | 8 | Jan 2025 | $0.7 /1M chars |
| 62 | Octave 2 | Hume AI | 1,060 ± 12 | 3,296 | 8 | Oct 2025 | $87.5 /1M chars |
| 63 | Sonic 3 | Cartesia | 1,056 ± 11 | 3,647 | 8 | Oct 2025 | $49.0 /1M chars |
| 64 | MiMo-V2.5-TTS | Xiaomi | 1,055 ± 12 | 2,219 | 4 | — | — /1M chars |
| 65 | Coda | Rime | 1,054 ± 12 | 2,574 | 7 | May 2026 | $50.0 /1M chars |
| 66 | Flux TTS | Deepgram | 1,052 ± 13 | 2,337 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $45.0 /1M chars |
| 67 | Async Flash v1.0 | async | 1,048 ± 11 | 4,158 | 8 | Jul 2025 | $10.1 /1M chars |
| 68 | Maya 2 Global | Maya Research | 1,048 ± 13 | 2,099 | 4 | Jul 2026 | — /1M chars |
| 69 | Maya1 | Maya Research | 1,046 ± 12 | 3,412 | 4 | Jun 2025 | — /1M chars |
| 70 | OpenAudio S1 Mini | Fish Audio | 1,044 ± 20 | 1,682 | 8 | Jun 2025 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 71 | Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025) | 1,042 ± 12 | 2,540 | 4 | Dec 2025 | $18.3 /1M chars | |
| 72 | Octave TTS | Hume AI | 1,040 ± 11 | 4,784 | 8 | Feb 2025 | $87.5 /1M chars |
| 73 | Higgs Audio V3 TTS | Boson AI | 1,039 ± 13 | 2,302 | 8 | Jun 2026 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 74 | Bland Speech v3 | Bland AI | 1,035 ± 12 | 2,650 | 8 | Aug 2026 | $40.0 /1M chars |
| 75 | Azure Neural | Microsoft | 1,033 ± 20 | 1,156 | 8 | Sep 2018 | $15.0 /1M chars |
| 76 | MAI-Voice-1 | Microsoft | 1,030 ± 12 | 2,416 | 4 | Apr 2026 | — /1M chars |
| 77 | T2A-01-Turbo | MiniMax | 1,028 ± 11 | 5,063 | 8 | Jan 2025 | $30.0 /1M chars |
| 78 | Polly Long-Form | Amazon | 1,027 ± 13 | 2,028 | 3 | Nov 2023 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 79 | Chatterbox | Resemble AI | 1,024 ± 11 | 4,779 | 8 | May 2025 | $25.0 /1M chars |
| 80 | Lightning v3.1 | Smallest.ai | 1,022 ± 12 | 2,426 | 7 | Mar 2026 | $25.0 /1M chars |
| 81 | Raon SpeechLM | Krafton | 1,007 ± 13 | 2,304 | 8 | Apr 2026 | — /1M chars |
| 82 | Zonos-v0.1 | Zyphra | 1,000 ± 0 | 4,916 | 8 | Feb 2025 | $20.0 /1M chars |
| 83 | Murf Speech Gen 2 | Murf AI | 986 ± 12 | 5,063 | 8 | Jul 2024 | $100.0 /1M chars |
| 84 | OpenVoice v2 | OpenVoice | 956 ± 13 | 3,112 | 0 | Apr 2024 | $8.3 /1M chars |
| 85 | VibeVoice 1.5B | Microsoft | 955 ± 14 | 2,187 | 2 | Aug 2025 | — /1M chars |
| 86 | Neuphonic TTS | Neuphonic | 941 ± 14 | 2,515 | 7 | Oct 2024 | $20.8 /1M chars |
| 87 | Qwen3 TTS Flash | Alibaba | 941 ± 14 | 2,233 | 4 | Sep 2025 | $11.0 /1M chars |
| 88 | Qwen3 TTS | Alibaba | 929 ± 13 | 3,175 | 8 | Jan 2026 | $13.8 /1M chars |
| 89 | Kugel 3 | KugelAudio | 925 ± 13 | 4,477 | 8 | Jun 2026 | — /1M chars |
| 90 | WaveNet | 919 ± 12 | 6,420 | 8 | Sep 2016 | $4.0 /1M chars | |
| 91 | XTTS v2 | Coqui | 915 ± 15 | 2,735 | 0 | Nov 2023 | $40.4 /1M chars |
| 92 | Mist V2 | Rime | 903 ± 15 | 3,079 | 7 | Mar 2025 | $31.1 /1M chars |
| 93 | Polly Neural | Amazon | 895 ± 14 | 2,995 | 7 | Jul 2019 | $16.0 /1M chars |
| 94 | Neural2 | 894 ± 12 | 6,704 | 8 | Jun 2022 | $16.0 /1M chars | |
| 95 | StyleTTS 2 | StyleTTS | 891 ± 15 | 2,707 | 0 | Jun 2023 | $2.8 /1M chars |
| 96 | Standard | 888 ± 12 | 6,787 | 8 | Aug 2018 | $4.0 /1M chars | |
| 97 | Noiz TTS | Noiz | 869 ± 15 | 2,466 | 8 | Nov 2025 | — /1M chars |
| 98 | MetaVoice v1 | MetaVoice | 847 ± 18 | 1,672 | 0 | Feb 2024 | — /1M chars |
| 99 | Polly Standard | Amazon | 832 ± 15 | 3,608 | 4 | Nov 2016 | $4.0 /1M chars |