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Week of September 14, 2026
October 26, 20269 changesOctober 19, 2026247 changesOctober 12, 2026127 changesOctober 5, 202634 changesSeptember 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changesAugust 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changes
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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
3Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusAlibaba1,241
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
GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)Image · #1New
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)Image · #2New
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #20New
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Sonic 3.6ClosedCartesia1,282±17
2—Realtime TTS-2ClosedInworld1,252±18
3—Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusClosedAlibaba1,241±14
4—Simba 3.2ClosedSpeechifyAI1,240±14
5—Luna TTSClosedVUI Labs1,228±14
6—Realtime TTS-2 Flash - Research PreviewClosedInworld1,222±15
7—v3 ConversationalClosedElevenLabs1,210±15
8—Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,208±12
9—StepAudio 2.5 TTS (Aug 2026)ClosedStepFun1,205±17
10—Sonic 3.5ClosedCartesia1,193±12
11—Lightning V3.1 Pro (Jul 2026)ClosedSmallest.ai1,190±14
12—Soniox TTS Real-Time v2ClosedSoniox1,179±11
13—Eleven v3ClosedElevenLabs1,175±11
14—Speech 2.8 HDClosedMiniMax1,171±11
15—Falcon 2ClosedMurf AI1,158±15
16—Speech 2.8 TurboClosedMiniMax1,152±11
17—Gradium TTS (Aug 2026)ClosedGradium1,149±15
18—Async Flash v1.5ClosedAsync1,141±13
19—Fish Audio S2.1 ProClosedFish Audio1,141±13
20—Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)ClosedStepFun1,138±12
21—Speech 2.6 HDClosedMiniMax1,134±11
22—Lightning V3.1 Pro TTS (Jun 2026)ClosedSmallest.ai1,133±13
23—Azure HD 2.5ClosedMicrosoft1,131±12
24—Speech 2.6 TurboClosedMiniMax1,127±11
25—SpaceXAI TTSClosedSpaceXAI1,123±16
26—Simba 3.0ClosedSpeechifyAI1,122±12
27—Async Pro v1.0ClosedAsync1,121±13
28—Speech-02-HDClosedMiniMax1,112±11
29—TTS-1 HDClosedOpenAI1,106±11
30—Turbo v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,100±10
31—Multilingual v2ClosedElevenLabs1,099±10
32—Chatterbox HDClosedResemble AI1,093±12
33—TTS-1ClosedOpenAI1,091±10
34—Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,084±12
35—Speech 2.6ClosedHithink1,084±13
36—Speech-02-TurboClosedMiniMax1,082±11
37—StudioClosedGoogle1,081±11
38—OpenAudio S1ClosedFish Audio1,080±11
39—Flash v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,080±11
40—JourneyClosedGoogle1,075±13
41—Maya 2 FlashClosedMaya Research1,072±14
42—Sonic 3ClosedCartesia1,067±11
43—GPT-Realtime-2ClosedOpenAI1,067±13
44—T2A-01-HDClosedMiniMax1,066±11
45—Polly GenerativeClosedAmazon1,063±11
46—SIMBA 1.6ClosedSpeechifyAI1,062±12
47—Maya 2 GlobalClosedMaya Research1,059±14
47—MiMo-V2.5-TTSClosedXiaomi1,059±13
49—CodaClosedRime1,058±12
50—Chirp 3: HDClosedGoogle1,057±11

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 “—”.