Updated 2026-11-10 · 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 | 12.5 M | from 0.7 GB |
| 02 | audio.cpp-gguf | — | — | other | 8.9 M | from 1.6 GB |
| 03 | XTTS-v2 | — | — | other | 5.7 M | — |
| 04 | OmniVoice | 610 M | — | unknown | 3.5 M | from 4.2 GB |
| 05 | chatterbox | — | — | ✓ mit | 2.4 M | from 12.2 GB |
| 06 | VieNeu-TTS-v3-Turbo | 131 M | 1 K | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.1 M | from 0.7 GB |
| 07 | kokoro-inno-clone-tuner | 9.7 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.6 M | from 0.5 GB |
| 08 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice | 1.9 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.4 M | from 5.8 GB |
| 09 | F5-TTS | — | — | ✗ cc-by-nc-4.0 | 1.3 M | from 5.0 GB |
| 10 | Qwen3-TTS-GGUF | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.2 M | from 1.8 GB |
| 11 | Higgs-Audio-v3-Studio | — | — | other | 1.1 M | from 5.0 GB |
| 12 | Breeze-TTS-2.cpp | — | — | other | 1.0 M | from 3.3 GB |
| 13 | VoxCPM2 | 2.3 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 987 K | from 5.9 GB |
| 14 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base | 910 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 842 K | from 3.4 GB |
| 15 | Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX | 82 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 808 K | from 0.7 GB |
| 16 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice | 910 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 734 K | from 3.4 GB |
| 17 | Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign | 1.9 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 608 K | from 5.8 GB |
| 18 | sanoTTS | — | — | gpl-3.0 | 559 K | from 0.5 GB |
| 19 | Drama-3-GGUF | — | — | other | 496 K | from 19.3 GB |
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