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1501 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Text-to-speech arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 8, 2026

Best voice
Sonic 3.6Cartesia1,282Score
Best open model
Breeze TTS 2BreezeBlue1,215Score
Best from China
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusAlibaba1,241Score
Top three by Score
1Sonic 3.6Cartesia1,282
2Realtime TTS-2Inworld1,252
Top three open models
1Breeze TTS 2BreezeBlue · #7 overall1,215
2Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio · #25 overall1,128
3Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)StepFun · #32 overall1,104
This week's changes
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,208±12
2—Azure HD 2.5ClosedMicrosoft1,131±12
3—TTS-1 HDClosedOpenAI1,106±11
4—TTS-1ClosedOpenAI1,091±10
5—Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,084±12
6—StudioClosedGoogle1,081±11
7—JourneyClosedGoogle1,075±13
8—GPT-Realtime-2ClosedOpenAI1,067±13
9—Polly GenerativeClosedAmazon1,063±11
10—Chirp 3: HDClosedGoogle1,057±11
11—Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,056±12
12—Polly Long-FormClosedAmazon1,044±13
13—MAI-Voice-1ClosedMicrosoft1,034±12
14—Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,031±12
15—Azure NeuralClosedMicrosoft1,029±19
16—VibeVoice 1.5BClosedMicrosoft966±13
17—Magpie MultilingualClosedNVIDIA946±14
18—WaveNetClosedGoogle915±12
19—Neural2ClosedGoogle891±12
20—Polly NeuralClosedAmazon889±14
21—StandardClosedGoogle882±12
22—Polly StandardClosedAmazon825±15

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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Artificial Analysis data comes from its API (artificialanalysis.ai). Scores are unchanged; ranks follow the scores. artificialanalysis.ai

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