Bark
Released
2023-04-01
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 45d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedAudio
Bark is available now for general LLM work with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Pricing
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
Links
About
Open-source text-to-speech model with multilingual support and diverse speaker options for local deployment.
Bark is an open-source model. The structured metadata tracks audio. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Bark yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
Audio
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
barkFrequently asked questions
When was Bark released?
Bark was released on 2023-04-01.