per character
hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
deepinfra/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
Kokoro is an open-weight TTS model with 82 million parameters. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to larger models while being significantly faster and more cost-efficient. With Apache-licensed weights, Kokoro can be deployed anywhere from production environments to personal projects.
Price
Providers
Each row is one seller. Prices are the published rate from that source. A dash means that source did not publish the amount. Sorted by a 3:1 blend of input and output.
No provider prices yet.
Monthly bill
Token models use the token counts. Image, video, and audio models use units times the flat rate.
No published price at list price for this workload
Every rate
| Unit | Input | Output | Flat | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| character | $0.99/character | Not published— | Not published— | official |
Price history
input or flat output
Daily snapshots
| UTC date | Unit | Input | Output | Flat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | character | $0.62 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-09 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-10 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-11 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-12 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-13 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-14 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-15 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-16 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-17 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-18 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-19 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-20 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-21 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-22 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-23 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-24 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-25 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-26 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-27 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-28 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-29 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-30 | character | $0.99 | Not published— | Not published— |
Alternatives
Parameters (1)
tts
Call this model
OpenRouter id deepinfra/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M. InferenceList does not send the request.
curl
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"deepinfra/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
JavaScript
await fetch("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer " + process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
model: "deepinfra/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
}),
});
Python
import os, json, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions",
data=json.dumps({"model": "deepinfra/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json"},
)
print(urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode())