Kokoro Text to Speech API: Pricing and Specs

Kokoro Text to Speech API

Kokoro Text to Speech is a text-to-speech model by hexgrad, available on the Venice API as tts-kokoro. It runs privately, with zero data retention.

Kokoro Text to Speech API pricing

Model ID	Variant	Privacy	Price
`tts-kokoro`	Standard	Private	$3.50 / 1M chars

Kokoro Text to Speech specifications

Spec	Value
Provider	hexgrad
Released	Mar 19, 2025
Privacy	Private
Status	Stable
Open weights	Yes
Voices	54
Formats	mp3, opus, aac, flac, wav, pcm

How to use the Kokoro Text to Speech API

Send requests to POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/speech with "model": "tts-kokoro" and your API key.

curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "tts-kokoro",
    "input": "Private AI for everyone.",
    "voice": "af_alloy",
    "response_format": "mp3"
  }' --output speech.mp3

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