Text to Speech Leaderboard - Top AI Speech Models

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Range

Creator

Model

Elo

95% CI

Samples

Arena Voices

Released

API Pricing 1

11-2

SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI

Simba 3.2

1,238-15/151,983Jul 2026$10.0 /1M chars
21-2

Alibaba logoAlibaba

Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus

1,237-15/151,985Jul 2026$27.6 /1M chars
33-4

VUI Labs logoVUI Labs

Luna TTS

1,220-14/142,040Jun 2026$80.0 /1M chars
43-6

Google logoGoogle

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS

1,212-12/123,328Apr 2026$18.3 /1M chars
53-8

StepFun logoStepFun

StepAudio 2.5 TTS

1,206-15/151,713Jun 2026$85.0 /1M chars
64-9

Cartesia logoCartesia

Sonic 3.5

1,201-13/132,797May 2026$49.0 /1M chars
75-9

Inworld logoInworld

Realtime TTS 1.5 Max

1,199-13/132,459Jan 2026$26.0 /1M chars
85-9

Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai

Lightning V3.1 Pro (Jul 2026)

1,195-15/151,584Jul 2026$19.5 /1M chars
96-10

Inworld logoInworld

Realtime TTS-2 - Research Preview

1,189-13/132,549May 2026$20.8 /1M chars
1010-11

ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs

Eleven v3

1,176-12/124,233Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1110-11

MiniMax logoMiniMax

Speech 2.8 HD

1,176-12/124,372Feb 2026$100.0 /1M chars
1212-18

Gradium logoGradium

Gradium TTS Beta

1,154-16/161,264Jul 2026$47.2 /1M chars
1312-18

Murf AI logoMurf AI

Falcon 2

1,154-16/161,250Jul 2026$10.0 /1M chars
1412-16

MiniMax logoMiniMax

Speech 2.8 Turbo

1,154-11/114,244Feb 2026$60.0 /1M chars
1512-19

async logoasync

Async Flash v1.5

1,151-13/131,953May 2026$10.1 /1M chars
1612-21

StepFun logoStepFun

Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)

1,144-13/132,083Feb 2026$40.0 /1M chars
1712-22

Fish Audio logoFish Audio

Fish Audio S2.1 Pro

1,142-14/141,904Jun 2026$15.0 /1M chars
1815-23

MiniMax logoMiniMax

Speech 2.6 HD

1,139-12/123,893Oct 2025$100.0 /1M chars
1915-24

Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai

Lightning V3.1 Pro TTS (Jun 2026)

1,138-14/141,889Jun 2026$19.5 /1M chars
2016-25

Inworld logoInworld

Realtime TTS 1.5 Mini

1,134-12/122,871Jan 2026$10.4 /1M chars
2116-25

Microsoft logoMicrosoft

Azure HD 2.5

1,131-13/132,337Mar 2026$22.0 /1M chars
2218-25

async logoasync

Async Pro v1.0

1,129-13/131,811May 2026$20.2 /1M chars
2319-25

MiniMax logoMiniMax

Speech 2.6 Turbo

1,127-11/114,260Oct 2025$60.0 /1M chars
2420-28

Fish Audio logoFish Audio

Fish Audio S2 ProHugging FaceOpen Weights

1,124-13/131,975Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2520-28

SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI

Simba 3.0

1,124-13/132,344Feb 2026$12.5 /1M chars
2621-31

SpaceXAI logoSpaceXAI

SpaceXAI TTS

1,115-17/17825Mar 2026$15.0 /1M chars
2724-31

MiniMax logoMiniMax

Speech-02-HD

1,113-12/124,275Mar 2025$100.0 /1M chars
2824-31

StepFun logoStepFun

Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights

1,112-13/131,794Feb 2026N/A
2926-31

OpenAI logoOpenAI

TTS-1 HD

1,107-12/123,452Nov 2023$30.0 /1M chars
3027-31

ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs

Multilingual v2

1,104-10/107,637Aug 2023$100.0 /1M chars
3127-34

ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs

Turbo v2.5

1,102-11/117,199Jul 2024$50.0 /1M chars
3229-37

Gradium logoGradium

Gradium TTS

1,094-14/141,699Jun 2026$47.2 /1M chars
3330-37

Resemble AI logoResemble AI

Chatterbox HD

1,093-13/132,223—May 2025$40.0 /1M chars
3431-37

OpenAI logoOpenAI

TTS-1

1,092-11/116,348Nov 2023$15.0 /1M chars
3532-41

ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs

Flash v2.5

1,085-11/115,838Dec 2024$50.0 /1M chars
3632-42

Google logoGoogle

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTS

1,085-12/123,042Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
3732-42

MiniMax logoMiniMax

Speech-02-Turbo

1,085-12/123,785Mar 2025$60.0 /1M chars
3834-47

Mistral logoMistral

Voxtral TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights

1,079-13/131,981Mar 2026$16.0 /1M chars
3934-49

Hithink logoHithink

Speech 2.6

1,078-14/141,648Jul 2026N/A
4035-47

Google logoGoogle

Studio

1,078-12/124,537Feb 2023$160.0 /1M chars
4135-47

Fish Audio logoFish Audio

OpenAudio S1

1,077-11/114,478Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
4235-50

Cartesia logoCartesia

Sonic 3

1,074-12/123,518Oct 2025$49.0 /1M chars
4337-53

Maya Research logoMaya Research

Maya 2 Flash

1,070-15/151,603Jul 2026N/A
4438-52

NVIDIA logoNVIDIA

Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)Hugging FaceOpen Weights

1,069-13/131,856Feb 2026N/A
4538-53

SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI

SIMBA 1.6

1,068-13/132,176Oct 2024$10.0 /1M chars
4638-53

Google logoGoogle

Journey

1,068-13/132,112Dec 2023$160.0 /1M chars
4738-53

OpenAI logoOpenAI

GPT-Realtime-2

1,067-13/131,731May 2026$191.6 /1M chars
4842-53

MiniMax logoMiniMax

T2A-01-HD

1,065-11/114,990Jan 2025$50.0 /1M chars
4942-54

Amazon logoAmazon

Polly Generative

1,065-12/123,790May 2024$30.0 /1M chars
5042-58

Xiaomi logoXiaomi

MiMo-V2.5-TTS

1,062-13/131,825-N/A
5143-58

Kokoro logoKokoro

Kokoro 82M v1.0Hugging FaceOpen Weights

1,060-11/115,462Jan 2025$0.7 /1M chars
5244-59

Hume AI logoHume AI

Octave 2

1,058-12/123,036Oct 2025$87.5 /1M chars
5346-60

Google logoGoogle

Chirp 3: HD

1,056-12/123,390Mar 2025$30.0 /1M chars
5448-60

Google logoGoogle

Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)

1,054-12/122,781Dec 2025$9.2 /1M chars
5548-63

Rime logoRime

Coda

1,052-13/132,006May 2026$50.0 /1M chars
5650-60

async logoasync

Async Flash v1.0

1,052-11/114,005Jul 2025$10.1 /1M chars
5743-67

Fish Audio logoFish Audio

OpenAudio S1 Mini

1,050-20/201,777Jun 2025$15.0 /1M chars
5850-64

Maya Research logoMaya Research

Maya 2 Global

1,049-15/151,533Jul 2026N/A
5952-64

Maya Research logoMaya Research

1,047-12/123,306Jun 2025N/A
6053-66

Cartesia logoCartesia

Sonic English (Oct 2024)

1,044-12/123,380Oct 2024$49.0 /1M chars
6155-68

Amazon logoAmazon

Polly Long-Form

1,040-13/131,840Nov 2023$100.0 /1M chars
6257-68

SpeechifyAI logoSpeechifyAI

SIMBA 1.0

1,040-11/114,946Jun 2024$10.0 /1M chars
6355-68

Boson AI logoBoson AI

Higgs Audio V3 TTSHugging FaceOpen Weights

1,040-14/141,817Jun 2026N/A
6459-69

Google logoGoogle

Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)

1,036-13/132,405Dec 2025$18.3 /1M chars
6561-70

MiniMax logoMiniMax

T2A-01-Turbo

1,033-11/115,095Jan 2025$30.0 /1M chars
6660-71

Microsoft logoMicrosoft

MAI-Voice-1

1,033-13/132,091Apr 2026N/A
6758-71

Microsoft logoMicrosoft

Azure Neural

1,031-19/191,226Sept 2018$15.0 /1M chars
6861-71

Hume AI logoHume AI

Octave TTS

1,030-11/114,848Feb 2025$87.5 /1M chars
6964-71

Smallest.ai logoSmallest.ai

Lightning v3.1

1,024-13/132,163Mar 2026$25.0 /1M chars
7065-71

Resemble AI logoResemble AI

ChatterboxGitHubOpen Weights

1,022-11/114,754May 2025$25.0 /1M chars
7165-73

Xiaomi logoXiaomi

MiMo-V2-TTS

1,020-14/141,695Mar 2026N/A
7271-74

NVIDIA logoNVIDIA

Magpie-Multilingual 357MHugging FaceOpen Weights

1,008-12/123,728Jan 2026N/A
7371-74

Rime logoRime

Arcana v3

1,007-13/132,200Feb 2026$50.0 /1M chars
7474

Zyphra logoZyphra

Zonos-v0.1GitHubOpen Weights

1,0000/04,993Feb 2025$20.0 /1M chars
7575-77

Murf AI logoMurf AI

Murf Speech Gen 2

982-12/125,270Jul 2024$100.0 /1M chars
7675-78

LMNT logoLMNT

LMNT

974-13/134,050Dec 2023$49.0 /1M chars
7775-78

Microsoft logoMicrosoft

VibeVoice 1.5B

974-14/142,104Aug 2025N/A
7876-79

Microsoft logoMicrosoft

VibeVoice 7BHugging FaceOpen Weights

965-14/142,094Aug 2025N/A
7978-79

OpenVoice logoOpenVoice

OpenVoice v2Hugging FaceOpen Weights

958-13/133,089—Apr 2024$8.3 /1M chars
8079-82

NVIDIA logoNVIDIA

Magpie Multilingual

945-14/141,999Apr 2025N/A
8180-82

Alibaba logoAlibaba

Qwen3 TTS Flash

941-14/142,114Sept 2025$10.0 /1M chars
8280-82

Neuphonic logoNeuphonic

Neuphonic TTS

939-14/142,349Oct 2024$20.8 /1M chars
8383-85

Alibaba logoAlibaba

Qwen3 TTS

922-13/132,867-N/A
8483-85

Coqui logoCoqui

920-15/152,610—Nov 2023$40.4 /1M chars
8583-85

Google logoGoogle

WaveNet

912-12/126,670Sept 2016$16.0 /1M chars
8686-89

Rime logoRime

Mist V2

896-15/152,909Mar 2025$31.1 /1M chars
8786-90

StyleTTS logoStyleTTS

StyleTTS 2GitHubOpen Weights

894-15/152,507—Jun 2023$2.8 /1M chars
8886-90

Google logoGoogle

Neural2

889-12/126,891Jun 2022$16.0 /1M chars
8986-90

Amazon logoAmazon

Polly Neural

885-14/142,837Jul 2019$16.0 /1M chars
9088-90

Google logoGoogle

Standard

880-12/126,982Aug 2018$4.0 /1M chars
9190-91

Noiz logoNoiz

Noiz TTS

865-16/161,798Nov 2025N/A
9292

MetaVoice logoMetaVoice

MetaVoice v1GitHubOpen Weights

846-18/181,393—Feb 2024N/A
9393

Amazon logoAmazon

Polly Standard

817-16/163,555Nov 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