AxForge offering · Request
Kokoro is an 82-million-parameter open-weight text-to-speech model with natural voices, fast enough for real-time use, under Apache-2.0. Validated on AxForge hardware with a dedicated DGX Spark deployment option for your traffic only, subject to confirmed availability, configuration and licence, as an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on hardware only you use, operated by AxForge in the EU.
Currently request-only. Add your request to the public forum; this is not a booking or a promised launch.
Why AxForge
| Real-time on one machine | 82M parameters: a dedicated DGX Spark synthesises speech many times faster than real time, for many concurrent streams. |
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| Natural voices, several languages | Multiple voices and languages in one small model, with quality close to models many times its size. |
| Apache-2.0 | Permissive weights: commercial use, no licence conversation, no per-character vendor pricing. |
Specifications
| Model | Kokoro by hexgrad |
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| Modalities | Text → speech |
| Licence | Open weights (apache-2.0); commercial use permitted |
| Hardware | NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10, 128 GB unified memory), owned and operated by AxForge |
| Rental term | Hour, week, month or year |
| Hardware pricing | €1.19/hour on demand · €0.95/hour by the week · €0.91/hour by the month · €0.85/hour by the year |
| Managed service | Quoted per deployment |
| Region | Málaga, Spain (eu-es-1) |
Kokoro catalogue reference: specifications and requirements. List prices in EUR.
How it works
| 1 | Add a public request describing your workload, context needs and preferred rental term. A request does not reserve hardware or promise a deployment. |
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| 2 | If AxForge can offer a deployment, agree the configuration, hardware rental, licence and managed-service price in writing before anything is billed. |
| 3 | Only after availability and terms are confirmed would AxForge provision the agreed dedicated system and model build. |
| 4 | After provisioning, point your OpenAI SDK at your own endpoint with the model name you receive. |
| 5 | After provisioning, adjust the term (hour, week, month or year) as your workload settles. |
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FAQ
This page describes the managed deployment option. Availability, the model build, hardware, licence and price must be agreed before a deployment can be offered. A public request does not provision or reserve a machine. Check the console for the current serverless offering list.
Piper is the lightweight TTS alternative with per-character API billing when offered; Kokoro is the higher-quality option for a dedicated deployment where voice quality matters.
Several English voices plus other languages; AxForge would list the voices available in your build with the deployment. Any deployment depends on confirmed availability, configuration, licence and price.
AxForge publishes only numbers it measures itself, and has not benchmarked this model on its nodes yet. For quality benchmarks, see the official model card.
For a deployment agreed after availability is confirmed: Hardware by the hour, week, month or year; the managed service is quoted per deployment. Both are confirmed in writing before anything is billed.