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1209 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Text-to-speech arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 17, 2026

Best voice
Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxInworld1,208Score
Best open model
Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio1,128Score
Best from China
StepAudio 2.5 TTSStepFun1,187Score
Top three by Score
1Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxInworld1,208
3StepAudio 2.5 TTSStepFun1,187
Top three open models
1Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio · #13 overall1,128
2Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)StepFun · #18 overall1,104
3Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)NVIDIA · #28 overall1,063
This week's changes
HiDream-O1-ImageImage · #31New
JT-35B-FlashIntelligence · #67New
granite-4.1-8bCoding · #68New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxClosedInworld1,208±18
2—Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,206±17
3—StepAudio 2.5 TTSClosedStepFun1,187±26
4—Eleven v3ClosedElevenLabs1,178±12
5—Inworld TTS 1 MaxClosedInworld1,164±17
6—Speech 2.8 HDClosedMiniMax1,163±12
7—SIMBA 3.0ClosedSpeechify1,159±36
8—Realtime TTS 1.5 MiniClosedInworld1,158±15
9—Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)ClosedStepFun1,148±19
10—Speech 2.8 TurboClosedMiniMax1,146±11
11—Speech 2.6 HDClosedMiniMax1,133±12
12—Speech 2.6 TurboClosedMiniMax1,129±11
13—Fish Audio S2 ProOpenFish Audio1,128±21
14—Azure HD 2.5ClosedMicrosoft1,120±21
15—Speech-02-HDClosedMiniMax1,117±11
16—Inworld TTS 1ClosedInworld1,116±16
17—Multilingual v2ClosedElevenLabs1,107±8
18—Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)OpenStepFun1,104±21
19—TTS-1ClosedOpenAI1,101±8
20—Turbo v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,098±8
21—TTS-1 HDClosedOpenAI1,097±12
22—Speech-02-TurboClosedMiniMax1,096±11
23—MiMo-V2.5-TTSClosedXiaomi1,089±36
24—Flash v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,087±9
25—Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,080±14
26—Sonic 3ClosedCartesia1,069±13
27—Gradium TTSClosedGradium1,066±33
28—Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)OpenNVIDIA1,063±21
29—OpenAudio S1ClosedFish Audio1,063±10
30—StudioClosedGoogle1,062±10
31—SIMBA 1.6ClosedSpeechify1,060±19
32—T2A-01-HDClosedMiniMax1,057±10
33—Polly GenerativeClosedAmazon1,056±11
34—Kokoro 82M v1.0OpenKokoro1,056±9
35—Voxtral TTSOpenMistral1,056±21
36—AsyncFlow V2, asyncClosedAsync1,052±11
37—Maya1OpenMaya Research1,050±13
38—Azure NeuralClosedMicrosoft1,048±8
39—Sonic English (Oct 2024)ClosedCartesia1,047±12
40—Polly Long-FormClosedAmazon1,044±19
41—Octave 2ClosedHume AI1,042±13
42—Chirp 3: HDClosedGoogle1,040±12
43—Chatterbox HDClosedResemble AI1,035±10
44—JourneyClosedGoogle1,033±18
45—Lightning v3.1ClosedSmallest.ai1,033±20
46—Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,029±15
47—SIMBA 1.0ClosedSpeechify1,026±10
48—MAI-Voice-1ClosedMicrosoft1,023±20
49—Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,023±16
50—Octave TTSClosedHume AI1,018±10

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 “—”.