Fish Audio

The most distinctive part of Fish Audio is its tag vocabulary. A writer working in the Fish Audio editor can insert emotion tags including [angry], [sad], [embarrassed], [emphasis], [whispering], [soft], [breathy], and [excited], plus special performance tags such as [laughing], [chuckling], [clear throat], [sobbing], [crying loudly], [sighing], [panting], [groaning], [crowd laughing], [background laughter], [pause], and [long pause]. Because those tags sit inline, a Fish Audio script can shift delivery mid-paragraph instead of only between separate renders.

The Fish Audio interface is organized around three tabs shown on the landing page: Text To Speech, Voice Cloning, and Speech To Text. The public demo accepts input against a 30,000-character counter, lets a visitor pick a voice such as Sarah or Adrian from the 2,000,000+ voice library, and renders audio before signup. Fish Audio also markets an end-to-end Voice Agent solution, transcription that includes multispeaker and emotion tags with natural language description, and multilingual output.

Published Fish Audio numbers do not always agree. The API section of the Fish Audio homepage advertises cloning "with perfect fidelity in 15 seconds" while the Fish Audio FAQ says cloning needs as little as 10 seconds of audio. Language coverage is similarly split: the Fish Audio API section says "Speak 30+ languages with any voice" while the Fish Audio FAQ lists English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, French, German, Arabic, and Spanish, and the meta description says 8 languages.

Fish Audio meters usage in monthly credits, and the Fish Audio pricing FAQ states each minute of generation costs roughly 600 to 625 credits. The Fish Audio Free Tier is $0 per month with no credit card, 8,000 credits monthly, a 500-character cap per generation, 3 public voice slots, standard generation speed, and enhanced voice cloning. Plus on Fish Audio is $15 month-to-month or $66 for a year (displayed as $5.5/mo) with 250,000 credits, up to 200 minutes, 15,000 characters per generation, 10 private voice slots, Voice Design access, and 1 professional voice slot.

Larger Fish Audio workloads step up to Pro at $100 monthly or $450 billed annually (displayed as $37.5/mo) with 2,000,000 credits, up to 1,620 minutes, 3 team seats, 30,000 characters per generation, unlimited voice slots, 5 professional voice slots, and a 7-day money-back guarantee. Fish Audio Max is $999 monthly or $8,988 billed annually (displayed as $749/mo) with 25,000,000 credits, up to 6,250 minutes, 10 team seats, and 15 professional voice slots. Fish Audio Enterprise is custom volume pricing billed annually with zero data retention, on-premise deployment, SOC2 compliance, organization-level pay-as-you-go controls, and SSO marked coming soon.

Procurement teams should note the contradictions in Fish Audio's own fine print. The Fish Audio Free Tier plan card lists "Commercial use" as a feature, yet the Fish Audio homepage FAQ says the free plan is personal use only and that monetizing on YouTube, podcasts, or in business requires a paid upgrade, and the Fish Audio terms restrict unpaid use to internal, personal, non-commercial use. The Fish Audio annual toggle also promotes "3 months off + anniversary 50% off when billed annually" while the Fish Audio billing FAQ says yearly billing saves 33% compared with monthly. Fish Audio further confirms that monthly quotas reset each billing cycle and unused minutes do not roll over.

Against peers in expressive speech synthesis, Fish Audio leans on three levers: an open-source lineage visible on the fishaudio GitHub organization, a very large user-contributed voice library, and per-sentence tag control rather than a single global style slider. Fish Audio marketing copy directly names ElevenLabs in its FAQ and claims "more affordable pricing with comparable quality," which is a vendor assertion rather than a measured result, so buyers evaluating Fish Audio should test the same script on both engines before committing to an annual Fish Audio plan.