AI Models for Content (2026): 7 Video, Image, Voice & Text Models and Where to Use Them
The generative models behind the apps: language, image, video, voice and music models, and the apps where you can use each one.
The same model is often sold by several apps at different prices and limits. Each model page lists where you can use it; the model map compares them all.
Eleven v3 🧠 ModelFreemium
ElevenLabs' expressive text-to-speech model with audio tags and 70+ languages
Whisper large-v3-turbo 🧠 ModelOpen source
OpenAI's open-source speech recognition for transcripts and subtitles in 99 languages
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 🧠 ModelPaid
Google's prompt-directed TTS with 2,000+ voices, 100+ languages and consented cloning
Chatterbox Multilingual V3 🧠 ModelOpen source
Resemble AI's MIT-licensed TTS with zero-shot voice cloning and built-in watermarking
Sonic-3.6 🧠 ModelFreemium
Cartesia's low-latency TTS for voice agents and narration, 44 languages
Kokoro-82M v1.0 🧠 ModelOpen source
Tiny Apache-licensed TTS model with 54 voices in 8 languages that runs anywhere
GPT-4o mini TTS 🧠 ModelPaid
OpenAI's steerable text-to-speech API with 13 voices and prompt-based style control