Speech Arena Elo 1,259 on Artificial Analysis, latency not measured; ranked 40th of 112 in the TTS for Voice Agents 2026 index.
Benchmark summary: 11.1/100, ranked 40th of 112 in the TTS for Voice Agents 2026 index (Listed). Strongest criterion: voice quality, 9.7 of 20 points.
Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from Alibaba (Qwen), measured by one independent benchmark, Artificial Analysis.
Overall score
11.1 /100
Data checked on September 30, 2026
Updated after each benchmark capture
Every point comes from a public benchmark: sources · methodology
Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus ranks 40th of 112 in the 2026 text-to-speech (TTS) API benchmark, with a score of 11.1/100.
Neither Coval nor Speko measures Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus's latency, so it scores 0 of 60 on real-time speed and does not appear in the real-time ranking.
No accuracy measurement: Coval does not measure its word error rate and Speko does not rate its pronunciation robustness, so accuracy counts 0 of 15.
In the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena (capture of October 1, 2026), Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus has an Elo of 1,259 (±16, 95% confidence) from 1,747 blind comparisons, 4th highest of the 92 models Artificial Analysis rates.
Artificial Analysis lists Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus at $19.3 per 1M characters (34th lowest of the 78 models Artificial Analysis lists a price for).
Artificial Analysis changed its Speech Arena Elo between the captures of September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 without a new measurement date (1,258, then 1,259): the score uses the average, 1,258.5. The value shown is the latest.
Tested in Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi by Artificial Analysis or Speko. A language missing here was not tested, which does not mean it is unsupported.
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