Updated 2026-08-06 · ranked by real download data
Best open-source TTS
Ranked nightly from our download snapshots of the Hugging Face catalog. Every entry shows its licence and what hardware it realistically needs.
| # | Model | Params | Context | Commercial use | 30d | Min VRAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Kokoro-82M | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 12.0 M | — |
| 02 | XTTS-v2 | — | — | other | 9.2 M | — |
| 03 | chatterbox | — | — | ✓ mit | 2.5 M | from 12.2 GB |
| 04 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice | 1.9 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.3 M | from 5.8 GB |
| 05 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice | 910 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.6 M | from 3.4 GB |
| 06 | Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.4 M | — |
| 07 | VoxCPM2 | 2.3 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 900 K | from 5.9 GB |
| 08 | OmniVoice | 610 M | — | unknown | 877 K | from 4.2 GB |
| 09 | F5-TTS | — | — | ✗ cc-by-nc-4.0 | 770 K | from 5.0 GB |
| 10 | VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B | 1.0 B | — | ✓ mit | 657 K | from 2.9 GB |
| 11 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign | 1.9 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 574 K | from 5.8 GB |
| 12 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base | 910 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 445 K | from 3.4 GB |
| 13 | MOSS-TTS | 8.5 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 375 K | from 20.5 GB |
| 14 | higgs-tts-3-4b | 4.7 B | — | other | 374 K | from 11.4 GB |
| 15 | VieNeu-TTS-v3-Turbo | 130 M | 1 K | ✓ apache-2.0 | 370 K | from 1.1 GB |
| 16 | s2-pro | 4.6 B | — | other | 368 K | from 11.2 GB |
Membership and ranking refresh nightly after the snapshot run. VRAM is an estimate for the smallest quantization at 8K context — methodology.