Voxtral 3 TTSvsStep Audio 2
Voxtral 3 TTS leads the overall Podium Score by 1.2 points (90.2 vs 89.0).Category wins: Voxtral 3 TTS 4 — 1 Step Audio 2.Step Audio 2 is the cheaper pick ($0.024/M vs $0.03/M per 1M output tokens). Voxtral 3 TTS is faster (165 t/s vs 150 t/s).
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Quick VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis
Voxtral 3 TTS is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 90.2 (vs 89.0 for Step Audio 2). In head-to-head domain evaluations, Voxtral 3 TTS outperforms in 4 of 7 benchmark categories.
Coding & Engineering
Voxtral 3 TTS (0.0)
Inference Speed
Voxtral 3 TTS (165 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Step Audio 2 ($0.024/M)
API Price / 1M (in · out)
Voxtral 3 TTS $0.015/M · $0.03/M — Step Audio 2 $0.012/M · $0.024/M
Choose Voxtral 3 TTS for vision and multimodal apps, and Step Audio 2 for autonomous agents and tool use.
| Metric | Voxtral 3 TTS | Step Audio 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 90.2 ▲ | 89.0 |
| Arena Elo | 1438 ▲ | 1422 |
| Intelligence Index | 90.0 ▲ | 89.0 |
| Coding | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Math | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Reasoning | 33.0 ▲ | 32.0 |
| Agentic | 52.0 | 55.0 ▲ |
| Knowledge | 47.0 ▲ | 46.0 |
| Multimodal | 87.0 ▲ | 85.0 |
| Long-context | 48.0 ▲ | 45.0 |
| Output speed | 165 t/s ▲ | 150 t/s |
| Output price | $0.03/M | $0.024/M ▲ |
| Context window | 32K | 64K ▲ |
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Voxtral 3 TTS vs Claude Mythos · Voxtral 3 TTS vs Claude 5.5 Sonnet · Voxtral 3 TTS vs Kimi K3.1 Pro · Voxtral 3 TTS vs Eleven Multilingual v3