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Best text-to-speech models for a 4GB PC without a graphics card

A leaderboard of the best text-to-speech models for a computer with 4GB of RAM and no graphics card. Models are ranked by one score that combines 102 published benchmarks. Models that run on it show the download that fits and the command to run it.

50 models · 102 benchmarks · updated
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4OpenAudio S1 Fish Audio71±8*†api $15.00/M charsdocs.fish.audio ↗Fish Audio S2 Technical Report
5Voxtral TTS (4B) Mistral71±4†api $16.00/M chars~10GBdocs.mistral.ai ↗Voxtral TTS
7Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus Alibaba69±2†api $20.00/M charswww.alibabacloud.com ↗Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical report
8Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview Google69±2api $50.00/M charsfal.ai ↗ZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)Building and Evaluating Fixed-Voice Thai TTS from Synthetic Speech (Wayu Research / Paxa Labs / Typhoon; arXiv:2609.03502v1)RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)nsanku TTS Benchmark (GhanaNLP community Space)ZTTS1-Eval results snapshot (Zyphra)Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24+1
11Grok TTS xAI68±3api $15.00/M charsdocs.x.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportArabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
13Simba 3.2 Speechify67±3*api $6.00/M charsspeechify.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings
17MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo MiniMax66±3*api $60.00/M charsplatform.minimax.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings
19MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD MiniMax66±2api $100.00/M charsplatform.minimax.io ↗Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical reportCN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1Preferences of a Voice-First Nation: pairwise human evaluation of TTS in 10 Indian languages (arXiv:2604.21481v2)
21Chirp 3: HD Google65±4*api $30.00/M charscloud.google.com ↗CN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1
22Eleven v3 ElevenLabs65±1api $100.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical reportZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsVoxtral TTSThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)+2
23Higgs Audio V3 TTS Boson AI65±3api $15.00/M chars~10GBdocs.boson.ai ↗Higgs Audio v3 comparison tables in SGLang-Omni cookbook (Boson AI contribution)RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
30Eleven Turbo v2.5 ElevenLabs63±4*api $50.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
32Fish Audio S2.1 Pro Fish Audio63±3*api $15.00/M charsdocs.fish.audio ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings
36Fish Audio S2 Pro Fish Audio63±1api $15.00/M chars~11GBdocs.fish.audio ↗UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)nineninesix/gepard-1.0 model card (Seed-TTS-eval benchmark table)Higgs Audio v3 comparison tables in SGLang-Omni cookbook (Boson AI contribution)ZTTS1-Eval results snapshot (Zyphra)+3
37MiniMax Speech-02-HD MiniMax63±3api $100.00/M charsplatform.minimax.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsEmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboard
38Eleven Flash v2.5 ElevenLabs62±2api $50.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsVoxtral TTSThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportRime Alpha TTS Benchmark v1.0.0 · SupportBench and ContentBench paired human preference
43Inworld TTS-1.5 Max Inworld62±3*api $10.00/M charsfal.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
46Eleven Flash v2 ElevenLabs62±3*api $50.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
47Eleven Turbo v2 ElevenLabs61±3*api $50.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
49Inworld Realtime TTS-2 Inworld61±2api $25.00/M charsreplicate.com ↗ZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)Fish Audio Drama 3 technical report
51MiniMax Speech-02-Turbo MiniMax60±3*api $60.00/M charsplatform.minimax.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings
52TTS-1 OpenAI59±4api $15.00/M charsdevelopers.openai.com ↗RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
55CosyVoice v3 Plus Alibaba Cloud58±4*api $26.00/M charswww.alibabacloud.com ↗CN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1
56Octave TTS (Octave 1) Hume AI58±4api $50.00/M charswww.hume.ai ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardInstructTTSEval: instruction-following TTS benchmark (arXiv:2506.16381v1)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
57Sonic 3 Cartesia58±2api $65.00/M charswww.together.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportRime Alpha TTS Benchmark v1.0.0 · SupportBench and ContentBench paired human preferencePreferences of a Voice-First Nation: pairwise human evaluation of TTS in 10 Indian languages (arXiv:2604.21481v2)
61Deepgram Aura 2 Deepgram57±3api $30.00/M charsdeepgram.com ↗Rime Alpha TTS Benchmark v1.0.0 · SupportBench and ContentBench paired human preferenceEmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
63TTS-1 HD OpenAI56±7*api $30.00/M charsdevelopers.openai.com ↗RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
71Lightning v3.1 Smallest.ai53±3*api $17.50/M charssmallest.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
74Kokoro 82M v1.0 hexgrad52±3api $0.62/M chars~0.3GBdeepinfra.com ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardParadee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice TTS Model (arXiv:2610.06817v1), Table 3 small-model comparisoncarun/tts-bench: intelligibility benchmark of four open TTS engines (published run, 2026-09-10)RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
78Gradium TTS Gradium51±3*api $38.00/M charsdocs.gradium.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
80Eleven Multilingual v2 ElevenLabs50±5api $100.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardEmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
86Chatterbox Resemble AI49±5api $25.00/M chars~3.2GB~2×replicate.com ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardCodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)
93Orpheus TTS 3B 0.1 (finetune-prod) Canopy Labs47±5api $15.00/M chars~2.4GBdocs.together.ai ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardEmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
101Amazon Polly Neural Amazon Web Services45±5*api $16.00/M charsaws.amazon.com ↗CN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1
109OpenAudio S1 Mini Fish Audio41±5api price unknown~3.6GBdocs.fish.audio ↗LEMAS multilingual audio suite reportArabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24CodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)
115Zonos v0.1 Zyphra39±5api price unknown~4.3GBzyphra.com ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardbalacoon speech_gen_baselines · zero-shot TTS metrics (VCTK, DAPS-celeb)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
116Eleven v4 ElevenLabs38±4*api $80.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗EMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-EvalFish Audio Drama 3 technical report
117Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS Google38±3*api price unknownai.google.dev ↗Antalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run tableEMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
119Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS Google38±3*api price unknownai.google.dev ↗Antalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run tableEMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
123Eleven v4 Turbo ElevenLabs36±4*api $40.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗EMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
125Sesame CSM-1B Sesame34±5api $7.00/M chars~6.6GBdeepinfra.com ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardbalacoon speech_gen_baselines · zero-shot TTS metrics (VCTK, DAPS-celeb)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOSRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
—Azure HD 2.5 Microsoftno reviewed resultsapi $22.00/M charsazure.microsoft.com ↗
—Breeze TTS 2 BreezeBlueno reviewed resultsapi $28.00/M chars~3GBbreezeblue.ai ↗
—Eleven v3 Conversational ElevenLabsno reviewed resultsapi $40.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗
—Lightning v3.1 Pro Smallest.aino reviewed resultsapi $19.50/M charssmallest.ai ↗
—MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD MiniMaxno reviewed resultsapi $100.00/M charsplatform.minimax.io ↗
—Octave 2 Hume AIno reviewed resultsapi $25.00/M charswww.hume.ai ↗
—Polly Generative Amazonno reviewed resultsapi $30.00/M charsaws.amazon.com ↗
—Sonic 3.6 Cartesiano reviewed resultsapi $38.00/M charscartesia.ai ↗
—Voxtral Mini TTS 3 Mistral AIno reviewed resultsapi $13.00/M charsmistral.ai ↗

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* new or thinly tested: ranked on too few benchmark results · † only the maker’s own numbers so far · ~RAM is estimated; full context may need more memory

50 models · 102 benchmarks · updated