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Our picks come first, in the order we would recommend them, with the benchmark, the price, the licence, the builds and the news beside each one. Everything after them is ranked by its independent score.
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Voice and music
Speech, music and sound. One company leads voice; music is more open, and few of these models have an independent score yet.
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ElevenLabs TTS Eleven-v3
The voice builders reach for most, and the only speech model with an arena score on this board.
- 1178 Elo arena #1 of 1
- 7 builds name ElevenLabs
- 2 in the news ↑ from 0
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Suno
The music generator people actually ship with: the one named in the builds we track.
- Not scored yet
- 1 build names Suno
- 1 in the news ↑ from 0
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ElevenLabs Music v2
Full vocal and instrumental tracks from the voice leader, with better arrangement and production than its first version.
- Not scored yet
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Udio v4AI music generation with stems and inpainting
- Not scored yet
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ElevenLabs Dubbing v2AI-powered video dubbing in multiple languages
- Not scored yet
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Lyria 2Google's latest music generation model
- Not scored yet
- 1 in the news ↑ from 0
Scores: TTS Arena (2026-05-06). Builds: 291 of the 422 on /builds, r/ClaudeAI left out. News: the daily briefing, 30 days to 2026-10-21.
RANK BY CATEGORY
All Tools
404tools
LLMs
152tools
IDEs & Coding Tools
75tools
Text → Image
63tools
Multimodal Reasoning
51tools
Image → Video
49tools
Text → Video
46tools
Image → Image
46tools
Text → Audio
30tools
Image → 3D
29tools
Text → 3D
28tools
AI Assistants
20tools
Video → Video
14tools
Multi-Service Platforms
13tools
Infrastructure
9tools
Agentic Browsers
7tools
REAL BENCHMARK SCORES
Source: TTS Arena, as of 2026-05-06. Shown only for models with independently verified scores. Not every tool in this category has published, comparable data.
RESULTS
| Rank | Tool | Modality | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| ① |
ElevenLabs TTS Eleven-v3
Multilingual text-to-speech with natural voice synthesis
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Text → Audio | Unknown |
| ② |
Suno
Text-to-music & vocals with fast iteration
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| ③ |
ElevenLabs Music v2
AI music generation with professional controls
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 4 |
Udio v4
AI music generation with stems and inpainting
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 5 |
ElevenLabs Dubbing v2
AI-powered video dubbing in multiple languages
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 6 |
Lyria 2
Google's latest music generation model
|
Text → Audio | Unknown |
| 7 |
NotebookLM
Google's AI Research Assistant: The Ultimate Study Tool
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LLMs, Text → Audio, AI Assistants | Free |
| 8 |
Suno v6
Suno's new generation of music models, built with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 9 |
ElevenLabs Eleven v4
ElevenLabs' most expressive voice model, with a Turbo version fast enough for live agents
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 10 |
ElevenLabs
High-quality TTS and voice tools
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 11 |
Resemble AI
Voice generation and cloning tools
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Text → Audio | Unknown |
| 12 |
Gemini Omni
Google's unified multimodal generation model
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LLMs, Text → Image, Text → Video, Text → Audio, Multimodal Reasoning | Freemium |
| 13 |
MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD
Ultra-realistic multilingual text-to-speech with sound tags
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 14 |
MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo
Fast multilingual text-to-speech with natural flow
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 15 |
MiniMax Music 3.0
Music generation with humanized vocals and elevated sound
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 16 |
Voxtral
Mistral's open-weight speech understanding and TTS models
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 17 |
ElevenLabs Text to Voice v3
Generate custom synthetic voices from text descriptions
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 18 |
ElevenLabs Flash v2.5
Ultra-low-latency text-to-speech for real-time voice agents
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 19 |
ElevenLabs Multilingual Speech to Speech v2
Real-time multilingual voice conversion that preserves emotion and content
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 20 |
ElevenLabs Multilingual v2
Emotionally-aware multilingual text-to-speech across 29 languages
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 21 |
Microsoft MAI Models (Build 2026)
Microsoft's unified AI model family from Build 2026
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LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning, Text → Audio, Text → Image, IDEs & Coding Tools, AI Assistants | Enterprise |
| 22 |
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS
Hosted Alibaba TTS across 16 languages, in a fast tier and a fidelity tier
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Text → Audio | Paid |
| 23 |
MiniMax Music 2.0
Advanced AI music generation with high-quality compositions
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Text → Audio | Unknown |
| 24 |
Stable Audio 2.5
High-quality music and sound effects generation
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Text → Audio | Unknown |
| 25 |
Sonauto v2.2
CD-quality music with superior vocals
|
Text → Audio | Unknown |
| 26 |
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Gemini 3.5-powered speech-to-text with contextual accuracy for technical/specialized content
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Text → Audio | Freemium |
| 27 |
Descript
Audio/video editing with AI features
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Text → Audio, Text → Video | Freemium |
| 28 |
ElevenLabs Sound Effects v2
Advanced sound effects generation
|
Text → Audio | Unknown |
| 29 |
MiniMax TTS
Multilingual text-to-speech with streaming
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Text → Audio | Unknown |
| 30 |
FLUX 3
Multimodal model generating image, video and audio from one set of weights
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Text → Image, Text → Video, Image → Video, Text → Audio | Paid |
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