Name: Fish Audio
Author: Fish Audio

What Fish Audio does

Fish Audio offers text-to-speech, voice cloning and a real-time voice changer built on its own open-sourced speech models (Fish Speech / S1), reachable via a web app and a pay-as-you-go API, popular for its low cost per minute versus larger vendors.

What you get: Voice cloning from ~10 seconds of clean audio, Real-time voice changer, Pay-as-you-go API with no subscription minimum, Student free-credit program, Fast, low-cost generation.

Typical jobs: Low-budget voice cloning for creators; Real-time voice changing for streaming; High-volume API TTS for developers.

Worth knowing: Longtail pick: strong price-to-quality ratio and fast-growing model lineup (S1/S2.1 Pro), but thinner English support/docs and less third-party review coverage than Western incumbents.

What users complain about: On Free, cloned voices live in public slots, and the Terms allow public submissions to be used for marketing, so a client voice on the Free plan is not a confidential asset. (https://fish.audio/blog/is-free-voice-cloning-really-free-2026-guide/)

Pricing and plan limits

Verified August 2026

Plan	Monthly	Annual (per mo)	Limits
Free	Free	Free	8,000 credits/month, up to 7 minutes of generation/month, 500 characters per generation, no API, no commercial rights
Plus	$5.50	$66	250,000 credits/month, up to 200 minutes/month, 15,000 characters per generation
Pro	$37.50	$450	2,000,000 credits/month, up to 1,620 minutes/month, 30,000 characters per generation
Max	$749	$8988	25,000,000 credits/month, up to 6,250 minutes/month
Enterprise	not disclosed	n/a	Custom volume pricing, zero data retention, on-premise deployment, SOC2 compliance

Where it wins

Free and entry-paid tiers are unusually generous on a per-dollar credit basis compared to ElevenLabs or Murf
Voice cloning quality holds up well with clean source audio, and the API is fast enough for production use

Where it falls short

On the Free plan, cloned voices are stored in public slots and the Terms allow public submissions to be reused, so a client's voice is not a confidential asset until you upgrade
Interface and documentation are still primarily Chinese-first, with limited English documentation depth

How we scored it

Full methodology

Criterion	Weight	Score	Contribution
Capability	30%	8.0	2.40
Value for money	25%	8.0	2.00
Ease of use	15%	6.5	0.97
Maturity	15%	6.0	0.90
Support & docs	10%	5.5	0.55
Momentum	5%	8.0	0.40
Weighted total	100%	7.2	7.20

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Hume AI
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Freemium 7.2/10
Cartesia
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Freemium 7.5/10

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