Updated 2026-09-20 · 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 | 82 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 11.6 M | from 0.7 GB |
| 02 | XTTS-v2 | — | — | other | 7.3 M | — |
| 03 | audio.cpp-gguf | — | — | other | 4.3 M | from 1.4 GB |
| 04 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice | 1.9 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.6 M | from 5.8 GB |
| 05 | chatterbox | — | — | ✓ mit | 1.8 M | from 12.2 GB |
| 06 | OmniVoice | 610 M | — | unknown | 1.3 M | from 4.2 GB |
| 07 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice | 910 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.0 M | from 3.4 GB |
| 08 | F5-TTS | — | — | ✗ cc-by-nc-4.0 | 949 K | from 5.0 GB |
| 09 | Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX | 82 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 726 K | from 0.7 GB |
| 10 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base | 910 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 648 K | from 3.4 GB |
| 11 | VieNeu-TTS-v3-Turbo | 130 M | 1 K | ✓ apache-2.0 | 601 K | from 1.1 GB |
| 12 | VibeVoice-1.5B | 2.7 B | — | ✓ mit | 482 K | from 6.9 GB |
Membership and ranking refresh nightly after the snapshot run. VRAM is an estimate for the smallest quantization at 8K context — methodology.