Kokoro-82M v1.0

Small 82M-parameter open-weights text-to-speech model under Apache-2.0 that runs on CPU or modest GPUs.

Where it ranks

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Text to speech
Models · Local · 1,064 on Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)

Vendor: hexgrad
Family: Kokoro
Released: 27 Jan 2025
Weights: Open: download and run it yourself
License: Apache-2.0
Parameters: 0.082B
GPU memory to run locally: ~1 GB (Derived: 82M parameters is about 0.3 GB of fp32 weights; it also runs on CPU.)
API price: $0.65 per 1M characters (Artificial Analysis normalised price for Kokoro 82M v1.0 (USD per 1M characters).)
Access: Free (open weights)
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)	1,064	`Kokoro 82M v1.0` Provider Voice Arena, all categories and accents; rank 54 of 96, 5386 appearances, 95% CI ±11; raw value from the page's embedded data (shown rounded); no last-updated date shown, so as_of = retrieval date.	18 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
TTS Arena V2 (Hugging Face Space)	1,473	`Kokoro v1.0` Bradley-Terry rating ±23, 1033 votes, board rank 30 (the board sorts by the lower bound of the interval); read from the arena's public JSON endpoint, which feeds https://huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena-V2.	18 Oct 2026	tts-agi-tts-arena-v2.hf.space