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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—Breeze TTS 2OpenBreezeBlue1,204±16
2—Fish Audio S2 ProOpenFish Audio1,120±13
3—Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)OpenStepFun1,094±13
4—Voxtral TTSOpenMistral1,076±13
5—Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)OpenNVIDIA1,063±13
6—Kokoro 82M v1.0OpenKokoro1,061±11
7NewOpenAudio S1 MiniOpenFish Audio1,041±20
8▼ 1Maya1OpenMaya Research1,041±12
9▼ 1Higgs Audio V3 TTSOpenBoson AI1,033±13
10▼ 1ChatterboxOpenResemble AI1,021±11
11▼ 1Zonos-v0.1OpenZyphra1,000±0
12NewVibeVoice 1.5BOpenMicrosoft951±14
13▼ 1OpenVoice v2OpenOpenVoice946±13
14▼ 1XTTS v2OpenCoqui914±15
15▼ 1StyleTTS 2OpenStyleTTS891±15
16▼ 1MetaVoice v1OpenMetaVoice845±18

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 “—”.