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1510 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of October 5, 2026
November 9, 202636 changesNovember 2, 202641 changesOctober 26, 20269 changesOctober 19, 2026247 changesOctober 12, 2026127 changesOctober 5, 202634 changesSeptember 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changes
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Text-to-speech arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated October 4, 2026

Best voice
Eleven v4ElevenLabs1,321Score
Best open model
Breeze TTS 2BreezeBlue1,216Score
Best from China
Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-PlusAlibaba1,292Score
Top three by Score
1Eleven v4ElevenLabs1,321
2Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-PlusAlibaba1,292
3Sonic 3.6Cartesia1,278
Top three open models
1Breeze TTS 2BreezeBlue · #10 overall1,216
2Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio · #32 overall1,117
3Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)StepFun · #39 overall1,095
This week's changes
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #2New
Utopai XVideo · #2New
Dreamina Seedance 2.5Video · #3New
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Intelligence · #5New
MiniMax H3 MaxVideo · #5New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Eleven v4ClosedElevenLabs1,321±18
2—Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-PlusClosedAlibaba1,292±18
3—Sonic 3.6ClosedCartesia1,278±16
4—Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,275±16
5—Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusClosedAlibaba1,261±15
6—Realtime TTS-2ClosedInworld1,251±16
7—Simba 3.2ClosedSpeechifyAI1,242±13
8—Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,242±15
9—Luna TTSClosedVUI Labs1,227±13
10—Breeze TTS 2OpenBreezeBlue1,216±15
11—Realtime TTS-2 FlashClosedInworld1,214±14
12—StepAudio 2.5 TTS (Aug 2026)ClosedStepFun1,210±15
13—Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,209±12
14—v3 ConversationalClosedElevenLabs1,203±14
15—Sonic 3.5ClosedCartesia1,190±12
16—Soniox TTS Real-Time v2ClosedSoniox1,179±11
17—Eleven v3ClosedElevenLabs1,174±11
18—Speech 2.8 HDClosedMiniMax1,173±11
19—Lightning V3.1 Pro (Jul 2026)ClosedSmallest.ai1,171±14
20—Falcon 2ClosedMurf AI1,155±14
21—Speech 2.8 TurboClosedMiniMax1,153±11
22—Gradium TTS (Aug 2026)ClosedGradium1,151±14
23—Fish Audio S2.1 ProClosedFish Audio1,141±13
24—Async Flash v1.5ClosedAsync1,136±13
25—SpaceXAI TTSClosedSpaceXAI1,136±15
26—Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)ClosedStepFun1,134±12
27—Azure HD 2.5ClosedMicrosoft1,131±12
28—Speech 2.6 HDClosedMiniMax1,128±11
29—Simba 3.0ClosedSpeechifyAI1,125±12
30—Speech 2.6 TurboClosedMiniMax1,124±11
31—Async Pro v1.0ClosedAsync1,119±13
32—Fish Audio S2 ProOpenFish Audio1,117±12
33—Speech-02-HDClosedMiniMax1,114±11
34—Speech 2.6ClosedHithink1,103±13
35—TTS-1 HDClosedOpenAI1,103±12
36—Chatterbox HDClosedResemble AI1,102±13
37—Turbo v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,098±11
38—Multilingual v2ClosedElevenLabs1,097±10
39—Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)OpenStepFun1,095±13
40—TTS-1ClosedOpenAI1,090±11
41—Speech-02-TurboClosedMiniMax1,090±12
42—Voxtral TTSOpenMistral1,083±13
43—Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,083±12
44—OpenAudio S1ClosedFish Audio1,082±11
45—StudioClosedGoogle1,079±11
46—Flash v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,078±11
47—GPT-Realtime-2ClosedOpenAI1,077±13
48—JourneyClosedGoogle1,074±13
49—Maya 2 FlashClosedMaya Research1,071±14
50—T2A-01-HDClosedMiniMax1,066±11

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 “—”.