Kokoro TTS Online — Hear All 56 Voices Free, 10 Free to Generate [2026]

Kokoro-82M is an open-weights neural text-to-speech model with 82 million parameters, released under the Apache 2.0 license. Despite being small enough to run on modest hardware, it produces natural, broadcast-intelligible speech that rivals commercial TTS engines. On EasyVoice it powers 56 voices across 8 languages: American and British English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese.

Yes. EasyVoice runs Kokoro-82M on its own GPUs, so you use it entirely in the browser — type text, pick a voice, download the MP3. There is no Docker container, no Python environment, no model download, and no GPU required on your side. You can generate 2,000 characters per day anonymously with no signup, and 5,000 per day with a free account.

The model itself is free and open (Apache 2.0), and EasyVoice's free tier lets you use it at no cost: 2,000 characters/day with no signup, or 5,000/day with a free account — no credit card either way. Unlimited characters cost $9.99/month flat. Self-hosting is 'free' only in license terms; you still pay for the GPU and your own time.

It depends on what you need. A raw metered endpoint serves the model per character and leaves retries, storage, and tooling to you; check each provider's own pricing page for its current rate. If you want the model plus a studio: long-form 50,000-character generations, MP3/WAV downloads, voice previews, projects, and an OpenAI-compatible API, EasyVoice is $9.99/month flat with no meter at all.

Kokoro-82M is small enough to run on a CPU for short clips, but long-form narration at usable speed wants a GPU. Rented GPUs on community GPU clouds (RTX 4090-class cards) run about $0.20–$0.60/hour in 2026 — an always-on server is $146–$438/month before you spend a single hour on CUDA drivers, model updates, audio storage, or uptime monitoring. Self-hosting makes sense for engineers who enjoy it or need on-premise audio; for everyone else, hosted Kokoro at $9.99/month flat is cheaper than the electricity conversation.

About 1.1 milliseconds per character on EasyVoice's GPUs (own measured production data, July 2026). Short texts start returning audio in roughly one second warm. A 25,000-character script — a 20–30 minute YouTube narration — renders in about 28 seconds, and the Pro studio accepts up to 50,000 characters in a single generation (~55 minutes of audio).

Yes. Kokoro-82M is Apache 2.0-licensed, and EasyVoice grants full commercial usage rights to generated audio on every plan, including the free tier — monetized YouTube videos, paid client work, courses, podcasts, and software products, with no attribution and no royalties.

No — Kokoro-82M does not include Arabic. EasyVoice covers Arabic with 10 dedicated Modern Standard Arabic voices on a separate purpose-built neural engine, which is why the full catalog is 66 voices across 9 languages: 56 Kokoro-82M voices plus 10 Arabic MSA voices, all under the same $9.99/month flat plan.

Yes — an OpenAI-compatible one. POST to https://easyvoice.ae/api/v1/audio/speech with a Bearer key and an 'input' field; if your code already speaks the OpenAI TTS shape, switching means changing the base URL and the API key; OpenAI's six voice names work as they are (a free key can use nova only). Free accounts get a free API key (5,000 chars/day, 12 voices); Pro unlocks all 66 voices.