Testtospeech.com – New leaderboard adds balance and removes bias

Best & cheapest text-to-speech APIs, ranked — texttospeech.com Skip to main content Last refresh: Aug 19, 2026 Get the data The TTS Meta-Leaderboard The best text-to-speech APIs, ranked Simba 3.2 by SpeechifyAI is currently the best text-to-speech API, scoring 96/100 across all 3 public TTS benchmarks at $10.00 per 1M characters. We rank 108 models from 44 providers by aggregating artificialanalysis.com, voicearena.com and humannessindex.vapi.ai into one score — a fixed formula, no editorial adjustments, no vendor weighting. The cheapest scored model is Kokoro 82M v1.0 at $0.70 per 1M characters. Sources artificialanalysis.com voicearena.com humannessindex.vapi.ai

Quick answers Best overall Simba 3.2 SpeechifyAI 96/100 $10.00/1M Cheapest scored Kokoro 82M v1.0 Kokoro $0.70/1M 34/100 · #55 Best open weights Fish Audio S2 Pro Fish Audio 57/100 #25 overall · self-hostable

Model rankings All API Open Weights Score = Bayesian pairwise rank aggregation across 3 boards — fractional ranks, breadth-aware, chance-proof

RankModel AA — artificialanalysis.comVA — voicearena.comHI — humannessindex.vapi.ai Score $/1M chars 01 Simba 3.2 SpeechifyAI 90.486.995.0 96.0 $10.00/1M 02 Sonic 3.5 Cartesia 82.588.471.0 87.0 $49.00/1M 03 Eleven v3 ElevenLabs 77.464.397.0 86.0 $100.00/1M 04 Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Google 84.4100.0— 82.0 $18.30/1M 05 Speech 2.8 HD MiniMax 76.1—92.0 78.0 $100.00/1M 06 Realtime TTS 1.5 Max Inworld 81.0—79.0 78.0 $26.00/1M 07 newnew on the board this week Sonic 3.6 Cartesia 100.0—— 75.0 — 08 ▲1up 1 over the past week Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus Alibaba 90.4—— 74.0 $27.60/1M 09 ▲1up 1 over the past week Luna TTS VUI Labs 86.3—— 73.0 $80.00/1M 10 ▲1up 1 over the past week Fish Audio S2.1 Pro Fish Audio 69.9—87.0 71.0 $15.00/1M 11 ▲2up 2 over the past week Lightning V3.1 Pro (Jul 2026) Smallest.ai 80.853.3— 71.0 $19.50/1M 12 ▲2up 2 over the past week StepAudio 2.5 TTS StepFun 83.5—— 71.0 $85.00/1M 13 ▼5down 5 over the past week Realtime TTS-2 (Research Preview) Inworld 79.1—— 68.0 $20.80/1M 14 newnew on the board this week Soniox TTS Real-Time v2 Soniox 78.2—— 67.0 — 15 ▼3down 3 over the past week Falcon 2 Murf AI 72.0—— 65.0 $10.00/1M 16 ▼1down 1 over the past week Speech-02-HD MiniMax 63.0—89.0 64.0 $100.00/1M 17 ▼1down 1 over the past week Gradium TTS Beta Gradium 71.8—— 64.0 $47.20/1M 18 Speech 2.8 Turbo MiniMax 71.6—— 64.0 $60.00/1M 19 ▼2down 2 over the past week Async Flash v1.5 async 70.9—— 63.0 $10.10/1M 20 ▼1down 1 over the past week Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026) StepFun 69.2—— 61.0 $40.00/1M Unscored — insufficient board data — Unranked Speech 2.6 HD MiniMax 68.2—— — $100.00/1M — Unranked Lightning V3.1 Pro TTS (Jun 2026) Smallest.ai 67.9—— — $19.50/1M — Unranked Realtime TTS 1.5 Mini Inworld 67.5—— — $10.40/1M — Unranked Azure HD 2.5 Microsoft 67.3—— — $22.00/1M — Unranked Fish Audio S2 Pro Fish Audio Open weights 65.840.2— — $15.00/1M — Unranked Async Pro v1.0 async 66.5—— — $20.20/1M — Unranked Speech 2.6 Turbo MiniMax 66.2—— — $60.00/1M — Unranked Gradium TTS Gradium 59.265.336.0 — $47.20/1M — Unranked Simba 3.0 SpeechifyAI 65.6—— — $12.50/1M — Unranked SpaceXAI TTS SpaceXAI 65.2—— — — — Unranked TTS-1 HD OpenAI 62.2—— — $30.00/1M — Unranked Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026) StepFun Open weights 61.5—— — — — Unranked Flash v2.5 ElevenLabs 57.1—68.0 — $50.00/1M — Unranked Speech-02-Turbo MiniMax 57.1—69.0 — $60.00/1M — Unranked Multilingual v2 ElevenLabs 61.3—— — $100.00/1M — Unranked Turbo v2.5 ElevenLabs 61.3—— — $50.00/1M — Unranked TTS-1 OpenAI 59.2—— — $15.00/1M — Unranked Chatterbox HD Resemble AI 59.0—— — $40.00/1M — Unranked Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTS Google 58.3—— — $9.20/1M — Unranked Speech 2.6 Hithink 55.858.3— — — — Unranked Studio Google 56.4—— — $160.00/1M — Unranked Sonic 3 Cartesia 54.50.066.0 — $49.00/1M — Unranked Voxtral TTS Mistral Open weights 56.4—— — $16.00/1M — Unranked OpenAudio S1 Fish Audio 56.0—— — $15.00/1M — Unranked GPT-Realtime-2 OpenAI 54.7—— — $191.60/1M — Unranked Bland Speech v3 Bland AI 54.3—— — — — Unranked Maya 2 Flash Maya Research 54.3—— — — — Unranked Journey Google 53.8—— — $160.00/1M — Unranked T2A-01-HD MiniMax 53.2—— — $50.00/1M — Unranked Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026) NVIDIA Open weights 53.0—— — — — Unranked Maya 2 Global Maya Research 50.469.3— — — — Unranked Simba 1.6 SpeechifyAI 53.0—— — $10.00/1M — Unranked Polly Generative Amazon 52.8—— — $30.00/1M — Unranked MiMo-V2.5-TTS Xiaomi 52.1—— — — — Unranked Kokoro 82M v1.0 Kokoro Open weights 51.9—— — $0.70/1M — Unranked Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025) Google 51.3—— — $9.20/1M — Unranked Octave 2 Hume AI 51.3—— — $87.50/1M — Unranked Coda Rime 51.3—— — $50.00/1M — Unranked Chirp 3: HD Google 51.1—— — $30.00/1M — Unranked Flux TTS Deepgram 50.6—— — — — Unranked Async Flash v1.0 async 49.8—— — $10.10/1M — Unranked OpenAudio S1 Mini Fish Audio 49.8—— — $15.00/1M — Unranked Maya1 Maya Research Open weights 48.9—— — — — Unranked Polly Long-Form Amazon 48.3—— — $100.00/1M — Unranked Higgs Audio V3 TTS Boson AI Open...

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