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XAITEXT-TO-SPEECH45,524 SAMPLES / 30 DAYSLAST RUN SEP 15, 2026, 07:00 UTC

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Grok TTS text-to-speech benchmarks

Grok TTS, hosted by xAI, measures mean 397 ms time to first audio (20th of 28) and 4.9% word error rate (12th of 28) among TTS systems. Results cover the last 30 days. Coval benchmarks hosted endpoints daily using a consistent evaluation methodology. Last measured .

Grok TTS is xAI's managed speech synthesis model.

Time to First Audio#20 / 28
397ms
TTFA Network Roundtrip#23 / 28
343ms
TTFA Leading Silence#12 / 28
54ms
Word Error Rate#12 / 28
4.9%

Overview

The tested xAI service supports multilingual output, voice cloning and emotion controls.

Grok TTS is tested every day on a fixed set of text prompts, measuring how quickly audible speech starts and how intelligible the result is.

Technical specifications

Made by
xAI
Hosted by
xAI
Source
Official API
Licensing
Proprietary
Deployment
Cloud
Region
US
Features
Emotion control, Multilingual, Voice cloning

How Grok TTS ranks

Full TTS dashboard
Time to First Audio — every measured TTS modelMilliseconds · lower is better · 30-day averageEvery TTS model ranked on Time to First Audio, with Grok TTS highlighted.
  1. #1vui66 ms
  2. #2Qwen3 TTS Fast71 ms
  3. #3TTS Flash 291 ms
  4. #4Qwen3 TTS 1.7b106 ms
  5. #5Palabra TTS v1115 ms
  6. #6TTS 2181 ms
  7. #7Flash v2.5194 ms
  8. #8Default235 ms
  9. #9TTS Rt v2245 ms
  10. #10TTS RT v1245 ms
  11. #11Mist v3258 ms
  12. #12Sonic 3.5276 ms
  13. #13Phantom Z 3.4 conversational286 ms
  14. #14Aura 2308 ms
  15. #15Coda312 ms
  16. #16S2.1 Pro335 ms
  17. #17Eleven v3 Conversational348 ms
  18. #18Lightning v3.1 Pro362 ms
  19. #19S1379 ms
  20. #20Grok TTS397 ms
Show all 28 models
  1. #21Sonic 3.6423 ms
  2. #22Simba 3.2452 ms
  3. #23Simba 3.0471 ms
  4. #24Chirp 3 HD535 ms
  5. #25Falcon 2545 ms
  6. #26Qwen3 TTS Flash Realtime754 ms
  7. #27S2.1 Pro Free965 ms
  8. #28GPT-4o mini TTS1013 ms
median of all models · 310 ms
TTS models over the last 30 days, ranked on Time to First Audio.
#ModelHostTTFAWERSamples
1vuiFluxions66 ms9,450
2Qwen3 TTS FastNari71 ms2,190
3TTS Flash 2Inworld AI91 ms11,401
4Qwen3 TTS 1.7bBaseten106 ms420
5Palabra TTS v1Palabra115 ms11,385
6TTS 2Inworld AI181 ms11,401
7Flash v2.5ElevenLabs194 ms9,118
8DefaultGradium235 ms9,127
9TTS Rt v2Soniox245 ms11,232
10TTS RT v1Soniox245 ms11,234
11Mist v3Rime258 ms11,387
12Sonic 3.5Cartesia276 ms11,400
13Phantom Z 3.4 conversationalDeepdub286 ms11,396
14Aura 2Deepgram308 ms11,386
15CodaRime312 ms11,392
16S2.1 ProFish Audio335 ms11,400
17Eleven v3 ConversationalElevenLabs348 ms11,389
18Lightning v3.1 ProSmallest362 ms11,401
19S1Fish Audio379 ms11,393
20Grok TTSxAI397 ms11,386
21Sonic 3.6Cartesia423 ms8,210
22Simba 3.2Speechify452 ms11,393
23Simba 3.0Speechify471 ms11,396
24Chirp 3 HDGoogle535 ms11,400
25Falcon 2Murf545 ms11,397
26Qwen3 TTS Flash RealtimeAlibaba754 ms11,226
27S2.1 Pro FreeFish Audio965 ms11,366
28GPT-4o mini TTSOpenAI1013 ms11,370
Under-sampled models are excluded; tied models share a place. Dotted WER values split into substitutions, deletions and insertions on hover or tap.

Highest relative placement: 12th of 28 on Word Error Rate.

Latency vs accuracy

TTFA vs WEREach point is one measured model · Grok TTS highlighted · 30-day averagesTime to First Audio against Word Error Rate for every measured TTS model, with Grok TTS highlighted.
vui — 66 ms, 5.5%Qwen3 TTS Fast — 71 ms, 4.2%TTS Flash 2 — 91 ms, 5.4%Qwen3 TTS 1.7b — 106 ms, 5.5%Palabra TTS v1 — 115 ms, 5.8%TTS 2 — 181 ms, 4.6%Flash v2.5 — 194 ms, 6.7%Default — 235 ms, 5.3%TTS Rt v2 — 245 ms, 4.2%TTS RT v1 — 245 ms, 3.9%Mist v3 — 258 ms, 5.6%Sonic 3.5 — 276 ms, 5.9%Phantom Z 3.4 conversational — 286 ms, 6.0%Aura 2 — 308 ms, 5.2%Coda — 312 ms, 5.0%S2.1 Pro — 335 ms, 4.8%Eleven v3 Conversational — 348 ms, 4.4%Lightning v3.1 Pro — 362 ms, 4.4%S1 — 379 ms, 4.9%Sonic 3.6 — 423 ms, 5.3%Simba 3.2 — 452 ms, 4.4%Simba 3.0 — 471 ms, 5.2%Chirp 3 HD — 535 ms, 5.2%Falcon 2 — 545 ms, 5.2%Qwen3 TTS Flash Realtime — 754 ms, 8.9%S2.1 Pro Free — 965 ms, 4.7%GPT-4o mini TTS — 1013 ms, 4.8%Grok TTS — 397 ms, 4.9%

Where the errors come from

WER compositionGrok TTS's Word Error Rate split by error type · 30-day averageGrok TTS's WER split into substitutions, deletions and insertions.
  • Grok TTS4.9%
SubstitutionsDeletionsInsertions

Averages and tail latency

Averages hide slow outliers — these are the distributions behind each figure.

Grok TTS latency distributionMilliseconds · shared axis across metrics · last 30 daysGrok TTS's latency percentiles per metric: p25–p75 band, p50 tick, whisker to p99.
  • Time to First Audiop50 378 ms · p99 588 ms
  • TTFA Network Roundtripp50 321 ms · p99 517 ms
  • TTFA Leading Silencep50 47 ms · p99 132 ms
band p25–p75 · tick p50 · whisker to p99 with p90 and p95 stops
Average and percentile values per metric, with the number of samples behind each row.
MetricAveragep25p50p75p90p95p99Samples
Time to First Audio397 ms354 ms378 ms410 ms442 ms467 ms588 ms11,386
TTFA Network Roundtrip343 ms309 ms321 ms344 ms372 ms397 ms517 ms11,386
TTFA Leading Silence54 ms35 ms47 ms71 ms97 ms109 ms132 ms11,386
Word Error Rate4.9%0.0%0.0%7.7%18.8%20.0%35.7%11,366

Last 30 days

Daily medians from the same measurement runs · gaps are days without qualifying runs.

Time to First Audio — daily p50Line p50 · band p25–p75 · UTC daysGrok TTS's daily median Time to First Audio over the last 30 days.
Grok TTS · Sep 1: 358 msGrok TTS · Sep 2: 384 msGrok TTS · Sep 3: 376 msGrok TTS · Sep 4: 390 msGrok TTS · Sep 5: 382 msGrok TTS · Sep 6: 374 msGrok TTS · Sep 7: 388 msGrok TTS · Sep 8: 384 msGrok TTS · Sep 9: 409 msGrok TTS · Sep 10: 410 msGrok TTS · Sep 11: 370 msGrok TTS · Sep 12: 368 msGrok TTS · Sep 13: 372 msGrok TTS · Sep 14: 369 msGrok TTS · Sep 15: 339 ms
Word Error Rate — daily averageDaily average · UTC daysGrok TTS's daily Word Error Rate over the last 30 days.
Grok TTS · Sep 1: 3.8%Grok TTS · Sep 2: 4.5%Grok TTS · Sep 3: 4.8%Grok TTS · Sep 4: 4.6%Grok TTS · Sep 5: 5.6%Grok TTS · Sep 6: 5.7%Grok TTS · Sep 7: 4.8%Grok TTS · Sep 8: 5.0%Grok TTS · Sep 9: 5.2%Grok TTS · Sep 10: 5.1%Grok TTS · Sep 11: 5.2%Grok TTS · Sep 12: 4.8%Grok TTS · Sep 13: 4.8%Grok TTS · Sep 14: 4.8%Grok TTS · Sep 15: 5.5%

Time to First Audio by dataset

Grok TTS by test conditionMilliseconds · lower is better · best condition firstGrok TTS's Time to First Audio on each benchmark dataset.
  1. Text prompts397 ms
Time to First Audio per dataset, with the number of samples behind each figure.
DatasetTTFASamples
Text prompts397 ms11,386

Strongest condition: Text prompts at 397 ms · weakest: Text prompts at 397 ms.

How fast is Grok TTS?

On xAI, Grok TTS measures mean 397 ms time to first audio (20th of 28). Last measured 2026-09-15.

How accurate is Grok TTS?

On xAI, Grok TTS measures 4.9% word error rate (12th of 28). Last measured 2026-09-15.

Who hosts Grok TTS?

Grok TTS is created by xAI and served by xAI. Coval measures each hosted endpoint separately.

Limits of this comparison

Coval benchmarks the official endpoint on common prompts to compare audible response timing and output intelligibility.

  • The benchmark does not evaluate cloning similarity, expressive quality or every available xAI voice.

Official sources

Results are re-measured daily using fixed datasets and reported over a rolling 30-day window. Same datasets, prompts and metric definitions for every model, measured by Coval’s open-source runner. Full methodology on the overview.

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