Voice AI models and benchmarks

97 supported models. Missing benchmark results are marked “not measured”. Prices are the benchmark publisher’s vendor rates. Model availability is based on a saved catalog; live availability could not be verified.

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97 models

Speech-to-text32

ModelProviderId
Pulse
Smallest AI logoSmallest AI
14.5%5.1%5.9%839ms$0.0040
Nova-3
Deepgram logoDeepgram
17.0%12.0%10.8%189ms$0.0048
Flux
Deepgram logoDeepgram
19.7%not measured7.2%712ms$0.0065
flux-general-multi
Deepgram logoDeepgram
21.4%not measured8.7%854ms$0.0078
Ink-2
Cartesia logoCartesia
16.7%11.0%10.1%587ms$0.0090
Qwen3-ASR Realtime
Alibaba logoAlibaba
12.2%not measured4.0%889ms$0.0054
Chirp 3Batch only
Google logoGoogle
18.4%3.9%5.9%not measured$0.0160
Scribe v2 Realtime
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
12.5%not measured4.3%1.75s$0.0065
transcribe-1-proBatch only
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
not measured3.4%not measurednot measured$0.0060
transcribe-1Batch only
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
not measured3.2%not measurednot measured$0.0060
MAI-Transcribe-2Batch only
Azure logoAzure
not measured2.3%not measurednot measured$0.0017
Universal-3.5 Pro
AssemblyAI logoAssemblyAI
14.5%2.0%3.7%408ms$0.0075
Universal-3.6 Pro
AssemblyAI logoAssemblyAI
13.7%not measured3.1%505ms$0.0075
Velma 2
Modulate logoModulate
14.4%4.4%5.3%1.21s$0.0008
stt-rt-v5
Soniox logoSoniox
16.6%7.5%6.3%340ms$0.0020
GPT Transcribe
OpenAI logoOpenAI
16.8%2.5%5.8%817ms$0.0045
GPT Live Transcribe
OpenAI logoOpenAI
13.5%not measured4.9%620ms$0.0170
GPT Realtime Whisper
OpenAI logoOpenAI
16.8%not measured5.0%1.14s$0.0170
Qwen3-ASR Fast
Nari logoNari
12.0%3.3%3.8%33ms$0.0020
Qwen3-ASR
Nari logoNari
12.0%3.4%3.9%25ms$0.0010
GPT-4o-mini Transcribe
OpenAI logoOpenAI
20.6%2.7%5.7%822ms$0.0030
Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0
xAI logoxAI
13.7%2.8%37.2%1.13s$0.0033
Gradium ASR
Gradium logoGradium
24.2%8.4%11.6%1.13s$0.0104
Muse Voice Transcribe
meta logometa
14.2%not measured4.9%not measured$0.0030
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live
Google logoGoogle
13.1%not measurednot measured1.28s~$0.0090
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming
Azure logoAzure
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
ink-whisper
Cartesia logoCartesia
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
gemini-3.5-transcribeBatch only
Google logoGoogle
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
velma-2-stt-streaming
Modulate logoModulate
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
munsit
Munsit logoMunsit
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
munsit-en-ar
Munsit logoMunsit
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
default
Palabra logoPalabra
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured

LLM21

ModelProviderId
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Baseten logoBaseten
93.16%558ms88%0%$0.26
gpt-4.1-mini
OpenAI logoOpenAI
92.63%480ms69%3%$1.60
gpt-5.4-mini
OpenAI logoOpenAI
91.75%390ms80%0%$4.50
gpt-4.1
OpenAI logoOpenAI
89.12%462ms78%10%$8.00
gemini-3.7-flash
Google logoGoogle
86.84%1.38s85%0%$3.75
Qwen3.8-27B
Cerebras logoCerebras
86.14%246ms86%0%$1.49
gemini-3.8-flash
Google logoGoogle
85.79%1.21s87%0%$3.75
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Together)
Together logoTogether
84.21%157ms86%0%$1.20
gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAI logoOpenAI
83.51%580ms85%0%$12.00
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic logoAnthropic
83.33%1.47s89%0%$10.00
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Baseten)
Baseten logoBaseten
82.19%458ms88%0%$1.20
gpt-oss-120b (Cerebras)
Cerebras logoCerebras
82.02%139ms53%0%$0.75
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic logoAnthropic
81.67%391ms74%3%$5.00
gpt-oss-120b (Baseten)
Baseten logoBaseten
80.53%504ms73%0%$0.50
gpt-5.6-luna
OpenAI logoOpenAI
75.61%546ms78%0%$1.20
gpt-5.2
OpenAI logoOpenAI
75.61%664ms87%10%$14.00
Llama-3.3-70B
Together logoTogether
54.30%525ms57%0%$1.04
google/gemma-4-31B-it
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
openai/gpt-oss-120b
Together logoTogether
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Together logoTogether
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash
Together logoTogether
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured

Text-to-speech35

ModelProviderId
eleven_v3_conversational
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
1590266ms$50.0
eleven_v4
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
~1708844ms$80.0
eleven_v4_turbo
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
~1670205ms$40.0
gemini-3.8-flash-tts
Google logoGoogle
~16421.03s~$15.0
gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts
Google logoGoogle
~1639497ms~$10.0
flux
Deepgram logoDeepgram
~1550106ms$45.0
sonic-3.5
Cartesia logoCartesia
1574121ms$50.0
sonic-3.6
Cartesia logoCartesia
~1578120ms$50.0
tts-rt-v2
Soniox logoSoniox
~1606381ms~$13.0
simba-3.2
Speechify logoSpeechify
157385ms$10.0
inworld-tts-2
Inworld logoInworld
1561116ms$25.0
s2.1-pro
Fish Audio logoFish Audio
~1566185ms$15.0
lightning_v3.1
Smallest AI logoSmallest AI
1544173ms$17.5
grok-tts
xAI logoxAI
1495272ms$15.0
Gradium TTS
Gradium logoGradium
~1592105ms$57.8
gpt-4o-mini-tts
OpenAI logoOpenAI
1424691ms~$20.0
speech-2.8-hd
MiniMax logoMiniMax
1431294ms$100.0
palabra-tts-v1
Palabra logoPalabra
~152072ms$12.0
Qwen3-TTS Fast
Nari logoNari
~153664ms$10.0
Qwen3-TTS
Nari logoNari
~151075ms$5.0
paxa-tts-flash-v1
Paxa Labs logoPaxa Labs
~1325389ms$10.0
eleven_flash_v2_5
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
~1494not measured$50.0
eleven_multilingual_v2
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
~1472not measured$100.0
eleven_flash_v2
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
~1507not measured$50.0
sonic-3
Cartesia logoCartesia
~1551not measured$50.0
coda
Rime logoRime
~1535not measured$50.0
mistv3
Rime logoRime
~1428not measured$30.0
speech-2.6-turbo
MiniMax logoMiniMax
~1408not measured~$60.0
lightning_v3.1_pro
Smallest AI logoSmallest AI
~1447not measured$19.5
speech-2.8-turbo
MiniMax logoMiniMax
~1385not measured$60.0
MAI-Voice-2.1
Azure logoAzure
not measurednot measurednot measured
MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash
Azure logoAzure
not measurednot measurednot measured
eleven_v3
ElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
not measurednot measurednot measured
chirp-3-hd
Google logoGoogle
not measurednot measurednot measured
faseeh-v1-preview
Munsit logoMunsit
not measurednot measurednot measured

Speech-to-speech9

ModelProviderIdPriceas published
grok-voice-think-fast-2.0
xAI logoxAI
0.850.67820ms$0.08 · min
gpt-realtime-2.1-mini
OpenAI logoOpenAI
0.760.831.01s$10 / $20 · 1M tok
gemini-3.8-live
Google logoGoogle
0.870.831.21s$0.005 · min
gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking
Google logoGoogle
0.830.83844ms$0.005 · min
gpt-live-1
OpenAI logoOpenAI
0.860.781.22s$0.05 · min
gpt-realtime-2
OpenAI logoOpenAI
0.670.871.10s$32 / $64 · 1M tok
gpt-realtime-2.1
OpenAI logoOpenAI
0.630.561.10s$32 / $64 · 1M tok
qwen3.8-livetranslate-flash-realtimeTranslation
Alibaba logoAlibaba
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
gpt-realtime-translateTranslation
OpenAI logoOpenAI
not measurednot measurednot measurednot measured

Published stacks

What benchmarks.speko.ai picks for each job, and the measurement that decided it.

Use case
Defaultdecided on 8.5% WER · 86% task success · Elo 1670
Speech-to-textMuse Voice Transcribemeta:muse-voice-transcribe-1.0
LLMQwen3.8-27Bcerebras:qwen-3.8-27b
Text-to-speecheleven_v4_turboelevenlabs:eleven_v4_turbo
Real-time phone agentdecided on 301ms · 246ms · 84ms
Speech-to-textMuse Voice Transcribemeta:muse-voice-transcribe-1.0
LLMQwen3.8-27Bcerebras:qwen-3.8-27b
Text-to-speechinworld-tts-2inworld:inworld-tts-2
Accuracy-criticaldecided on 7.2% WER · 93% task success · 0.90 robustness
Speech-to-textUniversal-3.5 Proassemblyai:universal-3-5-pro
LLMDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731baseten:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Text-to-speecheleven_v4_turboelevenlabs:eleven_v4_turbo
Lowest costdecided on $0.0008/min · $0.0002/min · $0.0090/min
Speech-to-textVelma 2modulate:velma-2-stt-streaming-english-v2
LLMDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731baseten:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Text-to-speechsimba-3.2speechify:simba-3.2