Orpheus 3B is an English text-to-speech model from Canopy Labs, fine-tuned for natural prosody and expressive delivery. It offers 7 preset voices and is suited for narration, voice assistants, and interactive applications where naturalistic speech is a priority.
Modalities
Price
$7/M characters
Context
4K
Released
Apr 23, 2026
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Orpheus 3B is an English text-to-speech model from Canopy Labs, fine-tuned for natural prosody and expressive delivery. It offers 7 preset voices and is suited for narration, voice assistants, and interactive applications where naturalistic speech is a priority.
Orpheus 3B costs $7.00/M characters.
Orpheus 3B ships 7 voices. Pass a voice ID in the voice field of a text-to-speech request; the IDs this endpoint accepts are listed with the model in the models API.
Orpheus 3B accepts text as input and returns generated speech audio.
Orpheus 3B is served by 2 providers on OpenRouter: DeepInfra and Together. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.
Orpheus 3B was released on April 23, 2026.
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