Kokoro

Inference library for Kokoro-82M, a small open-weight text-to-speech model with Apache-2.0 weights.

Files, images and media PyPI Apache-2.0 Text to speech

Website GitHub PyPI

Used in agent projects

0.1% of 1,622 Python repos built with AI coding agents; 10 counting our dependency samples

Gid Score

41 /100

#2458 of 3,794 tools, #168 in files, images and media · ranking

In the catalog because

Editors' pick

a standard tool for text to speech, too rare in our project count to rank

Downloads

97.6K

PyPI, last 7 days, kokoro

GitHub stars

9,510

1,058 forks · last push Aug 6, 2025

How Kokoro is used

AgentGid editors added Kokoro to the catalog as a well-known library for text to speech. In our scan it appears in 10 public GitHub projects, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents, so there is too little project data to rank it against the tools people use most. Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (100.0%), Pydantic (80.0%), SoundFile (80.0%).

AgentGid articles about Kokoro

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Kokoro popularity over time

Top tools by Gid Score

Kokoro: downloads per weekPyPI, kokoro 98,018

Kokoro: GitHub starshexgrad/kokoro 9,510

Gid Score 41: downloads 42, use in agent projects 17, GitHub stars 49, downloads trend 64 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.

Often used with Kokoro

NumPy	100.0% of Kokoro projects · 17.1× more than average
Pydantic	80.0% of Kokoro projects · 9.3× more than average
SoundFile	80.0% of Kokoro projects · 292.1× more than average
Faster Whisper	70.0% of Kokoro projects · 217.3× more than average
psutil	70.0% of Kokoro projects · 37.1× more than average
FastAPI	60.0% of Kokoro projects · 8.0× more than average
Pillow	60.0% of Kokoro projects · 15.7× more than average
python-dotenv	60.0% of Kokoro projects · 6.5× more than average

How Kokoro is funded

Most funded tools

GitHub Sponsors

@hexgrad	4 current sponsors

GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes Kokoro.js.

Ways to fund Kokoro

GitHub Sponsors

As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.

Install

Package	`pip install kokoro`
Main stacks	Python (9), Next.js (1)
Example projects	remichu-ai/gallama, p-sree-sai-pavan/P.A.R.K.E.R

Alternatives to Kokoro

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