# speech model rankings

| \# | model | card | cheapest list | cheapest effective | unit | providers | tokens/week |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | `google/gemini-3.8-flash-tts` |  | 0.5 google-ai-studio | 0.4918 google-ai-studio |  | 2 | 20323129 |
| 2 | `google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts` |  | 0.5 google-ai-studio | 0.4935 google-ai-studio |  | 2 | 13078500 |
| 3 | `google/gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview` |  | 1.0 google-vertex | 0.9807 google-vertex/us-central1 |  | 1 | 7365708 |
| 4 | `fish-audio/drama-3` | 10.0 | 10.0 fish-audio |  | $0.00001/M UTF-8 bytes UTF-8 Bytes fish-audio | 1 | 1756544 |
| 5 | `hexgrad/kokoro-82m` |  | 0.62 deepinfra |  | $0.00000062/M characters Characters deepinfra/us | 2 | 1014735 |
| 6 | `elevenlabs/eleven-v4-turbo` | 40.0 | 40.0 elevenlabs |  | $0.00004/M characters Characters elevenlabs | 1 | 851889 |
| 7 | `x-ai/grok-voice-tts-1.0` | 15.0 | 15.0 xai |  | $0.000015/M characters Characters xai | 1 | 671651 |
| 8 | `elevenlabs/eleven-v4` | 80.0 | 80.0 elevenlabs |  | $0.00008/M characters Characters elevenlabs | 1 | 566694 |
| 9 | `heygen/heygen-voice-1-turbo` | 4.0 | 4.0 heygen |  | $0.000004/M characters Characters heygen | 1 | 299777 |
| 10 | `elevenlabs/eleven-flash-v2.5` | 40.0 | 40.0 elevenlabs |  | $0.00004/M characters Characters elevenlabs | 1 | 265146 |
| 11 | `fish-audio/s2.1-pro` | 15.0 | 15.0 fish-audio |  | $0.000015/M UTF-8 bytes UTF-8 Bytes fish-audio | 1 | 227676 |
| 12 | `microsoft/mai-voice-2` |  | 22.0 azure |  | $0.000022/M characters Characters azure | 1 | 167474 |
| 13 | `microsoft/mai-voice-2-flash` |  | 15.0 azure |  | $0.000015/M characters Characters azure | 1 | 147679 |
| 14 | `bytedance-seed/seed-audio-1-0` |  |  |  | $0.0025/minute Audio Output seed | 1 | 120051 |
| 15 | `qwen/qwen-audio-3.0-tts-plus` |  | 20.0 alibaba |  | $0.00002/M characters Characters alibaba | 1 | 94961 |
| 16 | `elevenlabs/eleven-v3` | 80.0 | 80.0 elevenlabs |  | $0.00008/M characters Characters elevenlabs | 1 | 81354 |
| 17 | `microsoft/mai-voice-2.1-flash` |  | 15.0 azure |  | $0.000015/M characters Characters azure | 1 | 80544 |
| 18 | `minimax/speech-2.8-hd` | 100.0 | 100.0 minimax |  | $0.0001/M characters Characters minimax | 1 | 63973 |
| 19 | `microsoft/mai-voice-2.1` |  | 22.0 azure |  | $0.000022/M characters Characters azure | 1 | 53650 |
| 20 | `elevenlabs/eleven-multilingual-v2` | 80.0 | 80.0 elevenlabs |  | $0.00008/M characters Characters elevenlabs | 1 | 53099 |
| 21 | `qwen/qwen-audio-3.0-tts-flash` |  | 15.0 alibaba |  | $0.000015/M characters Characters alibaba | 1 | 41725 |
| 22 | `deepgram/aura-2` | 30.0 | 30.0 deepgram |  | $0.00003/M characters Characters deepgram | 1 | 40518 |
| 23 | `minimax/speech-2.8-turbo` | 60.0 | 60.0 minimax |  | $0.00006/M characters Characters minimax | 1 | 36351 |
| 24 | `mistralai/voxtral-mini-tts-2603` | 16.0 | 16.0 mistral |  | $0.000016/M characters Characters mistral | 1 | 29925 |
| 25 | `mistralai/voxtral-mini-tts-3-0` | 14.3 | 13.0 mistral/zdr |  | $0.000013/M characters Characters mistral/zdr | 1 | 29828 |
| 26 | `deepgram/flux-tts` | 45.0 | 45.0 deepgram |  | $0.000045/M characters Characters deepgram | 1 | 22239 |
| 27 | `elevenlabs/eleven-v3-conversational` | 40.0 | 40.0 elevenlabs |  | $0.00004/M characters Characters elevenlabs | 1 | 15203 |
| 28 | `heygen/heygen-voice-1` | 15.0 | 15.0 heygen |  | $0.000015/M characters Characters heygen | 1 | 12144 |
| 29 | `canopylabs/orpheus-3b-0.1-ft` |  | 7.0 deepinfra/us |  | $0.000007/M characters Characters deepinfra/us | 2 | 10677 |
| 30 | `elevenlabs/eleven-turbo-v2.5` | 40.0 | 40.0 elevenlabs |  | $0.00004/M characters Characters elevenlabs | 1 | 8088 |
| 31 | `assemblyai/assemblyai-tts-1` | 15.0 | 15.0 assemblyai |  | $0.000015/M characters Characters assemblyai | 1 | 3347 |
| 32 | `elevenlabs/eleven-turbo-v2` | 40.0 | 40.0 elevenlabs |  | $0.00004/M characters Characters elevenlabs | 1 | 2943 |
| 33 | `fish-audio/s2-pro` | 15.0 | 15.0 fish-audio |  | $0.000015/M UTF-8 bytes UTF-8 Bytes fish-audio | 1 | 999 |
| 34 | `sesame/csm-1b` |  | 7.0 deepinfra |  | $0.000007/M characters Characters deepinfra/us | 1 | 440 |
| 35 | `elevenlabs/eleven-flash-v2` | 40.0 | 40.0 elevenlabs |  | $0.00004/M characters Characters elevenlabs | 1 | 426 |
| 36 | `fish-audio/s1` | 15.0 | 15.0 fish-audio |  | $0.000015/M UTF-8 bytes UTF-8 Bytes fish-audio | 1 | 113 |
| 37 | `zyphra/zonos-v0.1-transformer` |  | 7.0 deepinfra |  |  | 1 |  |
| 38 | `zyphra/zonos-v0.1-hybrid` |  | 7.0 deepinfra |  |  | 1 |  |