Guava Daytona TTS
Guava Daytona TTS is an open-weights text-to-speech (TTS) API from Guava, measured by one independent benchmark, Coval.
286 ms median and 613 ms P95 time to first audio on Coval (30 days to October 22, 2026): Visible delay speed tier.
Benchmark summary: Visible delay speed tier on Coval's P95 (the voice becomes a visible part of the delay).
Murf AI Falcon 2 is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from Murf AI, measured by two independent benchmarks: Artificial Analysis and Coval.
Speed tier
Visible delayP95 of 320 ms or more. The voice becomes a visible part of the delay.
Data read October 22, 2026. No combined score: methodology
Gradium TTS vs Murf AI Falcon 2 Fastest TTS APIs, by speed tierOn Coval's 30-day window ending October 22, 2026 (3,374 runs from US East), Murf AI Falcon 2 starts speaking after 285.9 ms on a typical turn (median) and 613.2 ms on a slow turn (P95, the slowest one in twenty). That P95 is 26th lowest of the 32 models Coval measures, which puts it in the Visible delay tier: the voice becomes a visible part of the delay. On the median it is a tie (gap under 10 ms) with Cartesia Sonic 3.5 and Cartesia Sonic 3.6.
In the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena it holds 1,153 ±13 Elo (95% interval), 28th highest of the 98 models Artificial Analysis rates; scores whose intervals overlap are a tie. In its Customer Service category, Artificial Analysis places it 29th, at 1,172 Elo.
Speko has not scored its pronunciation of numbers and dates.
Coval lists $10 per 1M characters (since Aug 31, 2026). Artificial Analysis lists $10. List prices, as each source prints them.
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