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Sonic 3.6 vs Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus
Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 1 task where both are listed: Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus is a tier higher in 1 of 1 shared task.
Sonic 3.6
Cartesia's low-latency streaming text-to-speech models, aimed at real-time voice agents.
- Vendor
- Cartesia
- Weights
- Closed: API and apps only
- Released
- 17 Aug 2026
- API price
- $49 per 1M characters (Artificial Analysis normalised price for Sonic 3.6 (USD per 1M characters).)
- License
- proprietary
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus
Alibaba's proprietary Qwen-Audio text-to-speech models, served through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.
- Vendor
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Weights
- Closed: API and apps only
- Released
- 24 Sep 2026
- API price
- $19 per 1M characters (Artificial Analysis normalised price for Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus (USD per 1M characters).)
- License
- proprietary
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Task by task
| Task | Sonic 3.6 | Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus | Higher tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text to speech Models | A1,287 on Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices) · Cloud | S1,296 on Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices) · Cloud | Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus |
A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.
Same benchmark, both results
| Benchmark | Sonic 3.6 | Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices) Elo from blind pairwise listener votes, each model using its own provider voices (all categories, US and UK accents), higher is better | 1,287 | 1,296 | 18 Oct 2026 |