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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
1NewGemini 3.8 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,260±17
2NewGemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,235±16
3▼ 2Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,199±12
4▼ 2Azure HD 2.5ClosedMicrosoft1,128±12
5▼ 2TTS-1 HDClosedOpenAI1,099±12
6▼ 2TTS-1ClosedOpenAI1,086±11
7▼ 2Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,081±12
8▼ 2StudioClosedGoogle1,075±12
9▼ 2JourneyClosedGoogle1,073±13
10▼ 2GPT-Realtime-2ClosedOpenAI1,072±13
11▼ 2Polly GenerativeClosedAmazon1,061±12
12▼ 2Chirp 3: HDClosedGoogle1,052±12
13▼ 2Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,051±12
14▼ 2Polly Long-FormClosedAmazon1,032±13
15—Azure NeuralClosedMicrosoft1,031±19
16▼ 3MAI-Voice-1ClosedMicrosoft1,030±13
17▼ 3Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,027±13
18—WaveNetClosedGoogle915±12
19—Neural2ClosedGoogle894±12
20—Polly NeuralClosedAmazon890±14
21—StandardClosedGoogle881±12
22—Polly StandardClosedAmazon828±16

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 “—”.