Kokoro-82M
Hugging Face (hexgrad) Open weights
The catch: A small voice and language set (54 voices, 8 languages in v1.0), and the card's setup also installs the espeak-ng system package.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 82M-parameter text-to-speech model; v1.0 (27 Jan 2025) has 8 languages and 54 voices, 24 kHz output. |
| Modality | audio |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Apache-2.0 |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | hexgrad/Kokoro-82M |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 2 Oct 2026 |
How to use Kokoro-82M
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Quickstart
pip install "kokoro>=0.9.2" soundfile && python -c "from kokoro import KPipeline; import soundfile as sf; sf.write('out.wav', next(iter(KPipeline(lang_code='a')('Hello there', voice='af_heart')))[2], 24000)"Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Kokoro-82M" (hexgrad/Kokoro-82M) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- A small voice and language set (54 voices, 8 languages in v1.0), and the card's setup also installs the espeak-ng system package.
- Apache-licensed weights; the model card says Kokoro 'has been deployed in numerous projects and commercial APIs' (huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M).
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Kokoro-82M free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Apache-2.0. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Kokoro-82M commercially?
Yes, under Apache-2.0. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Kokoro-82M?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Source: huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M, checked 2 Oct 2026.