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1447 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Text-to-speech arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 18, 2026

Best voice
Sonic 3.6Cartesia1,283Score
Best open model
Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio1,126Score
Best from China
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusAlibaba1,240Score
Top three by Score
1Sonic 3.6Cartesia1,283
3Simba 3.2SpeechifyAI1,240
Top three open models
1Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio · #25 overall1,126
2Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)StepFun · #30 overall1,107
3Voxtral TTSMistral · #40 overall1,079
This week's changes
hy4-previewCoding · #5New
GLM-5.3 (max)Intelligence · #6New
MAI-Image-2.5-ProImage · #7New
qwen3.8-flash-nextCoding · #8New
glm-5.3-flashCoding · #11New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusClosedAlibaba1,240±14
2—StepAudio 2.5 TTSClosedStepFun1,206±14
3—Speech 2.8 HDClosedMiniMax1,174±11
4—Speech 2.8 TurboClosedMiniMax1,154±11
5—Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)ClosedStepFun1,141±13
6—Speech 2.6 HDClosedMiniMax1,136±11
7—Speech 2.6 TurboClosedMiniMax1,127±11
8—Speech-02-HDClosedMiniMax1,111±11
9—Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)OpenStepFun1,107±13
10—Speech-02-TurboClosedMiniMax1,085±11
11—T2A-01-HDClosedMiniMax1,065±11
12—MiMo-V2.5-TTSClosedXiaomi1,061±13
13—T2A-01-TurboClosedMiniMax1,032±11
14—MiMo-V2-TTSClosedXiaomi1,019±13
15—Qwen3 TTS FlashClosedAlibaba940±14
16—Qwen3 TTSClosedAlibaba925±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 “—”.