Bark
An open-source model that generates speech and audio from text input
- Vendor
- Suno
- Also known as
- bark
What is Bark?
A generative text-to-audio model that produces multilingual speech, music, sound effects, and nonverbal vocalizations from text prompts. The model can attempt to match the emotional tone and prosody of selected voice presets.
Bark pricing
We don't have Bark's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Bark does
The capabilities that matter for text to speech, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Voice cloning
- ✗
- Zero shot cloning
- -
- Streaming synthesis
- -
- Ssml support
- -
- Emotion style control
- ✓
- On device offline
- -
- Open source
- ✓
- Watermarking provenance
- -
- Cloning consent verification
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Self-hosted
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Bark FAQ
Common questions about Bark, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Bark?
An open-source text-to-audio generation model that creates realistic multilingual speech and other audio types from text prompts. Designed for research and demonstration use, it supports various languages and can control tone and emotion based on presets but does not support custom voice cloning. It is indexed under Text To Speech.
Source: https://github.com/pricing
Is Bark free to use?
Bark is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://github.com/pricing
What platforms does Bark support?
Bark supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://github.com/pricing
Can Bark be self-hosted?
Yes. Bark can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://github.com/pricing
Is Bark open source?
Yes. Bark is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Source: https://github.com/suno-ai/bark
Bark alternatives
Other text to speech we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Amazon PollyConverts text to natural-sounding speech using AI networksmedium · 73%
- Murf AIAI-powered voice platform for synthesizing, transforming, and localizing spoken contentmedium · 53%
- Coqui TTSA deep learning toolkit for converting written text into natural-sounding speechlow · 28%
- WellSaid LabsGenerate realistic studio-quality synthetic voices from text in secondslow · 36%
- ElevenLabsAPI platform for generating realistic synthetic speech and audio contentlow · 34%
- eSpeak NGFree, multilingual voice synthesis software for multiple platformslow · 38%
Compare Bark
Side by side against other text to speech, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Bark, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 58 | 0.08 | 4.6 | ✓ |
| Stars | 87 | 0.05 | 4.1 | ✓ |
| Security score | 26 | 0.05 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 16 | 0.05 | 0.9 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Development activity | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 0 | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 67% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Open source, Emotion style control, Emotional prosody directing anger whisper joy | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Jupyter Notebook | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 95% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Trust center | https://github.com/security | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
| Scorecard | 2.6 | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=bark&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
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