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1512 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Text-to-speech arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 24, 2026

Best voice
Sonic 3.6Cartesia1,273Score
Best open model
Breeze TTS 2BreezeBlue1,204Score
Best from China
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusAlibaba1,259Score
Top three by Score
1Sonic 3.6Cartesia1,273
Top three open models
1Breeze TTS 2BreezeBlue · #9 overall1,204
2Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio · #27 overall1,120
3Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)StepFun · #36 overall1,094
This week's changes
claude-opus-5.5-maxCoding · #1New
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSSpeech · #2New
Grok Imagine Image 2.0Image · #4New
gpt-6-sol-maxCoding · #5New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusClosedAlibaba1,259±17
2—StepAudio 2.5 TTS (Aug 2026)ClosedStepFun1,199±17
3—Speech 2.8 HDClosedMiniMax1,168±11
4—Speech 2.8 TurboClosedMiniMax1,149±11
5—Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)ClosedStepFun1,131±13
6—Speech 2.6 HDClosedMiniMax1,127±12
7—Speech 2.6 TurboClosedMiniMax1,114±11
8—Speech-02-HDClosedMiniMax1,111±12
9—Speech-02-TurboClosedMiniMax1,085±12
10—T2A-01-HDClosedMiniMax1,061±11
11—MiMo-V2.5-TTSClosedXiaomi1,049±13
12—T2A-01-TurboClosedMiniMax1,027±11
13—MiMo-V2-TTSClosedXiaomi1,021±14
14—Qwen3 TTS FlashClosedAlibaba941±14
15—Qwen3 TTSClosedAlibaba926±13

Intelligence over time

Each maker's best model at the time on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, by the month it was released.

Gained most · Anthropic +57.2Highest now · Anthropic 64.6Gap between highest and lowest 18.1 ptsTime range Nov 2025 – Nov 2026
64.6Anthropic60.0Google56.9OpenAI50.1Meta46.5Kimi

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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.