Fish Audio
TTS and voice cloning with #1 leaderboard ranks and 10-second clones
Overview
Fish Audio is a text-to-speech and voice-cloning platform built on the open-source Fish-Speech/OpenAudio research, offering emotion-controllable speech in 80+ languages, clones from as little as 10 seconds of audio, and a developer API priced well below rivals like ElevenLabs.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Up to 7 min generation
- 3 public voice slots
- Enhanced voice cloning
- Up to 200 min generation
- 10 private voice slots
- Voice Design access
- Up to 1,620 min generation
- Unlimited voice slots
- 5 professional voice slots
- Up to 6,250 min generation
- 10 team seats
- 15 professional voice slots
- Organization-level controls
- SOC 2 compliance
- Custom SSO (coming soon)
What you can produce with Fish Audio
- Voice cloning from 10-15 seconds of reference audio
- Emotion-controllable TTS across 80+ languages
- Cross-lingual cloning (clone in one language, speak another)
- Developer REST API (~$15 per million UTF-8 bytes, S2-Pro)
- Open-source Fish-Speech/OpenAudio models on GitHub
- #1 TTS-Arena2 ranking (S1) and top open-weight model on Artificial Analysis (S2 Pro)
- Commercial-use licensing on paid plans
- Zero-data-retention and on-premise options (Enterprise)
ASEAN Perspective
Fish Audio in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Fish Audio's credibility comes from its open-source lineage rather than marketing copy: the underlying Fish-Speech models on GitHub have over 21,000 stars, and the S1 model topped the TTS-Arena2 leaderboard while S2 Pro ranks as the highest-scoring open-weight model on Artificial Analysis's Speech Arena. That's a genuinely strong technical position in a crowded field.
Practically, cloning from 10-15 seconds of audio is fast to set up, and the API is aggressively priced — roughly $15 per million UTF-8 bytes on the S2-Pro model, which reviewers peg at around 11x cheaper than ElevenLabs for comparable output. The free tier is real but strictly non-commercial; anyone shipping cloned voices commercially needs a paid plan.
Caveats worth knowing: clean source audio matters a lot — background noise in a cloning sample produces audible artifacts — and documentation is lighter than the more polished enterprise TTS vendors. Good fit for developers and creators who want flexible, inexpensive, API-driven voice generation and don't mind an open-source-flavored product over a white-glove enterprise one.
What people say
Fish Audio's strongest credential is technical rather than anecdotal: its S1 model holds the #1 spot on TTS-Arena2 — the most widely cited blind-listening leaderboard for text-to-speech — and the newer S2 Pro model ranks as the top open-weight system (11th overall) on Artificial Analysis's Speech Arena leaderboard, ahead of most other open models and closing in on proprietary ones. Voice-clone similarity scores around 8.8/10 in third-party testing, near the top of the category.
Reviewer feedback (Product Hunt and independent AI-tool review sites) is generally positive on core quality: natural-sounding output, fast generation, and clones that reviewers describe as strikingly close to the source voice from as little as 10-15 seconds of reference audio. The main friction points are around the edges rather than the core product — the free tier's limited credits and some demo features that appear available but don't fully work, plus documentation that trails more polished enterprise competitors. Clean source audio matters: background noise in a training clip produces noticeable artifacts in the clone.
The open-source angle is a real differentiator, not just a marketing line — Fish Audio (originally Fish-Speech, since folded into the OpenAudio research series) maintains fishaudio/fish-speech on GitHub with more than 21,000 stars and a voice library the company says has grown past two million user-contributed voices. Founder Shijia Liao positions the company around that open-research lineage rather than a closed commercial model.
On price, the developer API runs about $15 per million UTF-8 bytes on the S2-Pro model — reviewers commonly cite this as roughly 11x cheaper than ElevenLabs for similar output, a meaningful factor for anyone building TTS into a product at volume. Consumer plans range from a non-commercial free tier (8,000 credits/month) through Plus at $11/month, Pro at $75/month (the most popular tier, three team seats), up to Max at $749/month for heavy usage, with custom Enterprise pricing for zero-data-retention and on-premise needs.
Net: strong on measured quality and price, thinner on long-form enterprise-buyer reviews (G2/Capterra) compared with incumbents like ElevenLabs or Murf.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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