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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—Breeze TTS 2OpenBreezeBlue1,215±17
2—Fish Audio S2 ProOpenFish Audio1,128±12
3—Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)OpenStepFun1,104±13
4—Voxtral TTSOpenMistral1,078±13
5—Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)OpenNVIDIA1,065±13
6—Kokoro 82M v1.0OpenKokoro1,060±11
7—Maya1OpenMaya Research1,043±12
8—Higgs Audio V3 TTSOpenBoson AI1,038±13
9—ChatterboxOpenResemble AI1,021±11
10—Zonos-v0.1OpenZyphra1,000±0
11—VibeVoice 7BOpenMicrosoft969±13
12—OpenVoice v2OpenOpenVoice955±13
13—XTTS v2OpenCoqui922±14
14—StyleTTS 2OpenStyleTTS893±15
15—MetaVoice v1OpenMetaVoice840±17

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 “—”.