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Self-hosting an open text-to-speech model on serverless CPU: 4 GB was twice as fast as 2 GB and cost the same

Open-weight text-to-speech models are now good enough for audio versions of articles, product explainers and e-learning snippets. The question I wanted answered was practical: what does it actually cost and how long does it take to run one on a plain serverless CPU container, no GPU? Disclosure: I…

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  1. 2026-11-05 07:52 · DEV Community — AI
    Self-hosting an open text-to-speech model on serverless CPU: 4 GB was twice as fast as 2 GB and cost the same

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