Kokoro-82M
Model idhexgrad/Kokoro-82M
Price$0.65 per 1M characters
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
104newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
- Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B22 Oct 2026
- Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- Weights
- Weights are public under a permissive licence (Apache-2.0).
How to call it
4 ways to use Kokoro-82M, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | hexgrad/Kokoro-82M |
huggingface.co | |
| pip | kokoro |
github.com | |
| DeepInfra | hexgrad/Kokoro-82M |
deepinfra.com | |
| OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
Pricing
| Per 1M characters | $0.65 |
|---|
As published: “USD per 1M characters (cheapest hosted price per Artificial Analysis); self-hosting free”.
Source: artificialanalysis.ai, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Audio
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- Yes
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Released
- 27 January 2025
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Speech and audio
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Tiny model, top-tier quality
82M-param StyleTTS2 + ISTFTNet model trained for ~$1,000 (1,000 A100 h) on permissive data; v0.19 hit #1 on the HF TTS Spaces Arena; still top-5 open weights on Artificial Analysis (~1065 Elo) in Sept 2026.
Notes
v1.0: 54 preset voices, 8 languages (US/UK English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin), 24 kHz. No voice cloning. v0.19 was 2024-12-25. ~11.5M HF downloads/month.
Sources: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M , https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard/provider-voice