Speech generation
Which model reads your text out loud. Four answers — best value for money, best there is, best with open weights, cheapest that still works.
Which model reads your text out loud. 31 measured, 12 of them you can buy today.
- Best value for moneyspeech-2.8-turboMiniMax · 14th of 39 on TTS Arena V2$60per million characters2 sellers
- Best frontierspeech-2.8-hdMiniMax · 9th of 39 on TTS Arena V2$100per million characters1 seller
- Cheapestinworld-tts-1.5-maxInworld AI · 15th of 39 on TTS Arena V2$50per million characters1 seller
Judged on
Capability is a model's mean percentile across the boards below, on each board's widest metric. Prices are quoted as you are billed them; where a model charges separately to read and to write, the two are ranked against each other at one part in to three parts out, which for this field puts the middle at $60 per million characters. Best value for money is the most capable at or under that middle, and cheapest is the least expensive of those above the middle for capability — without that second floor the cheapest answer is reliably the worst model in the category. Figures read 2026-09-16.