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Kokoro-FastAPI vs Kokoro: catalog facts
Kokoro-FastAPI	Kokoro
Best for: Self-hosting a fast text-to-speech back end for apps, readers or Home Assistant	Best for: Small, fast open-weight text-to-speech model you can run locally
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license.
macOS, Linux, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
OpenAI-compatible speech endpoint Prebuilt multi-architecture Docker images with models included All 4 strengths for Kokoro-FastAPI OpenAI-compatible speech endpoint Prebuilt multi-architecture Docker images with models included Caption timestamps and phoneme endpoints Voice mixing and SSML support	Very small model size makes it fast and cheap to run locally Apache-licensed weights allow unrestricted deployment
AMD GPU support is experimental Apple Silicon has no prebuilt image	No repository activity reflected since mid-2025 No built-in graphical interface; used as a Python library
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Kokoro-FastAPI github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI Catalog checked September 26, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Kokoro huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M github.com/hexgrad/kokoro Catalog checked September 22, 2026

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