SpeechifyAI Simba 3.0
SpeechifyAI Simba 3.0 is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from Speechify, measured by two independent benchmarks: Artificial Analysis and Coval.
106 ms median and 172 ms P95 time to first audio on Coval (30 days to October 22, 2026): Fast enough speed tier.
Benchmark summary: Fast enough speed tier on Coval's P95 (fast enough for most agents). On the Coval and Artificial Analysis frontier: no other model is both faster and rated higher.
SpeechifyAI Simba 3.2 is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from Speechify, measured by three independent benchmarks: Artificial Analysis, Coval and Speko.
Speed tier
Fast enoughP95 from 138 ms to 263 ms. Fast enough for most agents.
Data read October 22, 2026. No combined score: methodology
Gradium TTS vs SpeechifyAI Simba 3.2 Fastest TTS APIs, by speed tierOn Coval's 30-day window ending October 22, 2026 (3,368 runs from US East), SpeechifyAI Simba 3.2 starts speaking after 105.8 ms on a typical turn (median) and 172.4 ms on a slow turn (P95, the slowest one in twenty). That P95 is 7th lowest of the 32 models Coval measures, which puts it in the Fast enough tier: fast enough for most agents. On the median it is a tie (gap under 10 ms) with Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b, Palabra TTS v1 and SpeechifyAI Simba 3.0. Speko's board plots it at 56 ms time to first audio from US East; its model page reports a 85 ms sweep.
Speko rates its naturalness at 1,573 Elo from blind A/B votes on phone-agent lines (12th highest of the 43 models Speko rates). In the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena it holds 1,245 ±12 Elo (95% interval), 10th highest of the 98 models Artificial Analysis rates; scores whose intervals overlap are a tie. In its Customer Service category, Artificial Analysis places it 15th, at 1,248 Elo.
Speko's pronunciation test on numbers, dates and currency scores it 0.21 on a 0-to-1 scale (23rd highest of the 30 models Speko scores). This is the accuracy measure used here; Coval's word error rate separates models too little to compare them.
Coval lists $10 per 1M characters (since Sep 22, 2026). Artificial Analysis lists $6.6. Speko lists about $10. List prices, as each source prints them: a range of $6.6 to $10.
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