StepFun · Proprietary · Read 2026-10-27
StepFun Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026): latency, voice quality, price and languages
- Rank
- not ranked
- Speed tier
- n/a
- P95
- n/a
- Price / 1M chars
- $40
StepFun Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026) is a proprietary text-to-speech model from StepFun. Coval does not measure its latency, so it has no speed tier and no rank. No source tested it in a language other than English.
This summary is generated from the measures below; it is not a vendor description. Measures a source does not hold are shown as n/a and are never estimated.
Speed (Coval, 30 days, US East, English)
| Speed tier | n/a |
| Median time to first audio | n/a |
| P90 | n/a |
| P95 | n/a |
| Mean | n/a |
| Standard deviation | n/a |
| Calls in the window | n/a |
| Cekura median, streamed text | n/a |
| Cekura median, full text | n/a |
Voice quality (never added together)
| Listener Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,135 ±11 |
| Customer-service Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,153 ±25 |
| Naturalness (Speko) | n/a |
| Naturalness estimate (Cekura, 1 to 5) | n/a |
Accuracy
| Reading accuracy (Cekura) | n/a |
| Numbers (Cekura) | n/a |
| Codes (Cekura) | n/a |
| Context (Cekura) | n/a |
| Medical terms (Cekura) | n/a |
| Hard passages judged correct (Artificial Analysis) | n/a |
| Numbers and dates (Speko score) | n/a |
| Word error rate (Coval) | n/a |
Price per 1 million characters
| Range across sources | $40 |
| Artificial Analysis | $40 |
| Speko | n/a |
| Coval | n/a |
| Cekura | n/a |
Coverage
| Access | Proprietary |
| Streaming | Vendor documentation |
| Coval tags | n/a |
| Rated for | Knowledge sharing, Assistants, Entertainment, Customer service |
| Languages tested | none beyond English |
Not collected
- Speed (Coval median time to first audio): not measured by Coval (reading of 2026-10-27, 30-day window)
- Speed (Coval P95 time to first audio): not measured by Coval (reading of 2026-10-27, 30-day window)
- Naturalness (Speko naturalness): not measured by Speko (reading of 2026-10-27)
- Numbers and dates (Speko pronunciation score): not measured by Speko (reading of 2026-10-27)
Sources
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard/provider-voice (read 2026-10-27)
- Vendor site: https://platform.stepfun.ai/
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Frequently asked questions
- How fast is StepFun Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)?
- Coval does not measure StepFun Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026), so no latency is published here.
- How much does StepFun Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026) cost?
- The benchmarks print a list price of $40 per million characters for StepFun Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026).
- Which languages was StepFun Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026) tested in?
- No source tested StepFun Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026) in a language other than English.