Data read October 27, 2026
Gradium TTS vs Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus: TTS API comparison
Speed cannot be compared: Coval does not measure Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus, so it has no P95 here.
On Artificial Analysis listener Elo, Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus is ahead (1,174 for Gradium TTS, 1,269 for Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus). List price per million characters: $36 to $57.80 for Gradium TTS, $19.30 for Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus.
Gradium TTS is ranked 1 of 23; Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus is not in the multilingual speed ranking. Every comparison on this site uses Gradium TTS as its fixed reference, and no page says either model is better overall.
| Measure | Gradium TTS | Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank in the multilingual speed ranking | 1 | not ranked | n/a |
| Speed tier | Headroom | n/a | n/a |
| Median time to first audio (ms), lower is faster | 53.7 | n/a | n/a |
| P95 time to first audio (ms), lower is faster | 104.3 | n/a | n/a |
| Listener Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,174 | 1,269 | Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus |
| Customer-service Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,241 | 1,288 | Tie |
| Naturalness (Speko) | 1,592 | n/a | n/a |
| Naturalness estimate (Cekura, 1 to 5) | 4.51 | n/a | n/a |
| Reading accuracy (Cekura) | 79.5% | n/a | n/a |
| Hard passages judged correct (Artificial Analysis) | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Lowest list price per 1M characters (lower is cheaper) | $36 to $57.80 | $19.30 | Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus |
| Languages tested (Artificial Analysis, Speko) | 4 | 8 | Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary | n/a |
| Streaming status | Measured | Vendor documentation | n/a |
Ahead is computed from the figures only. A latency gap under 10 ms is a tie; listener Elo values whose 95% intervals overlap are a tie. A measure one benchmark does not hold is n/a for that model and is never estimated. See the methodology and each model page for sources.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Gradium TTS faster than Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus?
- Speed cannot be compared: Coval does not measure Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus, so it has no P95 here.
- How do Gradium TTS and Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus compare on voice quality?
- On Artificial Analysis listener Elo, Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus is ahead (1,174 for Gradium TTS, 1,269 for Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus).
- Which is cheaper, Gradium TTS or Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus?
- List price per million characters: $36 to $57.80 for Gradium TTS, $19.30 for Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus.