Guava Daytona TTS
Guava Daytona TTS is an open-weights text-to-speech (TTS) API from Guava, measured by one independent benchmark, Coval.
318 ms median and 568 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).
Fish Audio S2.1 Pro is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from Fish Audio, measured by three independent benchmarks: Artificial Analysis, Coval and Speko.
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 Fish Audio S2.1 Pro Fastest TTS APIs, by speed tierOn Coval's 30-day window ending October 22, 2026 (3,376 runs from US East), Fish Audio S2.1 Pro starts speaking after 317.9 ms on a typical turn (median) and 568 ms on a slow turn (P95, the slowest one in twenty). That P95 is 24th lowest of the 32 models Coval measures, which puts it in the Visible delay tier: the voice becomes a visible part of the delay. Speko's board plots it at 198 ms time to first audio from US East.
In the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena it holds 1,189 ±14 Elo (95% interval), 20th highest of the 98 models Artificial Analysis rates; scores whose intervals overlap are a tie. In its Customer Service category, Artificial Analysis places it 21st, at 1,211 Elo.
Speko has not scored its pronunciation of numbers and dates.
Artificial Analysis lists $15. List prices, as each source prints them.
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