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1227 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Text-to-speech arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 24, 2026

Best voice
Sonic 3.5Cartesia1,218Score
Best open model
Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio1,124Score
Best from China
StepAudio 2.5 TTSStepFun1,187Score
Top three by Score
1Sonic 3.5Cartesia1,218
3Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxInworld1,194
Top three open models
1Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio · #15 overall1,124
2Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)StepFun · #18 overall1,112
3Voxtral TTSMistral · #31 overall1,070
This week's changes
Sonic 3.5Speech · #1New
Qwen3.7 MaxIntelligence · #5New
Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)Intelligence · #6New
gemini-3.5-flashCoding · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—StepAudio 2.5 TTSClosedStepFun1,187±15
2—Speech 2.8 HDClosedMiniMax1,168±12
3—Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)ClosedStepFun1,150±14
4—Speech 2.8 TurboClosedMiniMax1,145±11
5▲ 1Speech 2.6 TurboClosedMiniMax1,140±11
6▼ 1Speech 2.6 HDClosedMiniMax1,137±11
7—Speech-02-HDClosedMiniMax1,117±11
8—Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)OpenStepFun1,112±14
9NewSeed-TTS 2.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,095±15
10▼ 1Speech-02-TurboClosedMiniMax1,091±11
11▼ 1MiMo-V2.5-TTSClosedXiaomi1,090±14
12▼ 1T2A-01-HDClosedMiniMax1,067±11
13▼ 1T2A-01-TurboClosedMiniMax1,023±10
14▼ 1MiMo-V2-TTSClosedXiaomi1,019±14
15—Qwen3 TTS FlashClosedAlibaba934±13
16▼ 2Qwen3 TTSClosedAlibaba928±13

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 “—”.