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1539 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Text-to-speech arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated October 4, 2026

Best voice
Eleven v4ElevenLabs1,321Score
Best open model
Breeze TTS 2BreezeBlue1,216Score
Best from China
Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-PlusAlibaba1,292Score
Top three by Score
1Eleven v4ElevenLabs1,321
3Sonic 3.6Cartesia1,278
Top three open models
1Breeze TTS 2BreezeBlue · #10 overall1,216
2Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio · #32 overall1,117
3Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)StepFun · #39 overall1,095
This week's changes
Eleven v4Speech · #1New
Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-PlusSpeech · #2New
claude-sonnet-5.5-xhighCoding · #3New
gpt-6.1-sol-maxCoding · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,275±16
2—Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,242±15
3—Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,209±12
4—Azure HD 2.5ClosedMicrosoft1,131±12
5—TTS-1 HDClosedOpenAI1,103±12
6—TTS-1ClosedOpenAI1,090±11
7—Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,083±12
8—StudioClosedGoogle1,079±11
9▲ 1GPT-Realtime-2ClosedOpenAI1,077±13
10▼ 1JourneyClosedGoogle1,074±13
11—Polly GenerativeClosedAmazon1,065±12
12▲ 1Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,058±12
13▼ 1Chirp 3: HDClosedGoogle1,056±12
14▲ 1Azure NeuralClosedMicrosoft1,035±19
15▲ 1MAI-Voice-1ClosedMicrosoft1,034±13
16▼ 2Polly Long-FormClosedAmazon1,033±13
17—Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,033±13
18—WaveNetClosedGoogle918±12
19—Neural2ClosedGoogle895±12
20—Polly NeuralClosedAmazon894±14
21—StandardClosedGoogle886±12
22—Polly StandardClosedAmazon830±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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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.