The voice (tts) leaderboard · for creatives

Best for voice (tts)

Decision area: Synthetic voices you'd actually ship.
Editor picks: 5 editor picks
Eligible models: 21 eligible models

EDITOR'S CHOICEResearched 8d ago

Eleven v3

ElevenLabs

Excellent

Voices you'd actually ship without a second pass.

ElevenLabs' GA TTS (February 2, 2026), API id `eleven_v3`: expressive multi-speaker speech in 70+ languages at $0.10 per 1K characters.

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The numbers

Pricing

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Context

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tts

Pros

+GA eleven_v3 API
+70+ languages
+Multi-speaker dialogue

Cons

−$0.10 per 1K characters

Also worth picking

The runners-up

ranked by editorial pick orderEditorial tiersExcellentStrongSolid

#ModelTierEditor's note

ElevenLabs

Most expressive voices with the lowest artifact rate — the studio standard for production VO.

ElevenLabs

Most expressive voices with the lowest artifact rate — the studio standard for production VO.

OpenAI TTS

OpenAI

Cheapest credible TTS; voices are a touch flatter but ship fine for apps.

OpenAI TTS

OpenAI

Cheapest credible TTS; voices are a touch flatter but ship fine for apps.

Aura-2 EN

Deepgram

Low-latency conversational voice tuned for real-time voice agents.

Aura-2 EN

Deepgram

Low-latency conversational voice tuned for real-time voice agents.

Google Cloud Text-to-Speech

Google

Broadest language and locale coverage for non-English-first products.

Google Cloud Text-to-Speech

Google

Broadest language and locale coverage for non-English-first products.

Eligibility

21 models are eligible for this board

Eligibility means tagged with useCases: [tts]. Pins must come from this pool.

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