Fish Audio review
7.9/10★★★★★Low-cost TTS and voice cloning with a 2M+ community voice library and open models
- Best for
- Budget-conscious creators who want strong voices and cloning without ElevenLabs prices
- Price
- Freemium · from $11/month
Free: 8,000 credits a month (up to about 7 minutes), 500 characters per generation - Platforms
- Web, API
- Made by
- Hanabi AI Inc., Palo Alto, USA · since 2023
What it is
Fish Audio offers text-to-speech and voice cloning from about 15 seconds of audio, plus a community library of more than two million voices. Its S2.1 Pro model supports 83 languages, and the company also releases open-weight models.
Latest: Raised a $52M seed round and shipped its S2.1 Pro model in July 2026.
What the AI does
- S2.1 Pro text-to-speech in 83 languages
- Voice cloning from short samples
- Voice design tools
- 2M+ community voice library
- Speech-to-text
Pros and cons
- Very cheap for the quality
- Huge community voice library
- Open-weight models for self-hosting
- Free plan includes cloning
- Free plan caps each generation at 500 characters
- No mobile apps
- Fewer polish and team features than the big studios
How it scores
The best value on the list: near-leader quality for a fraction of the price, but less polished and web-only.
Feature checklist · 6 of 9
- Self-serve voice cloning from your own sample (yes)
- Library of 500+ voices (yes)
- Speech in 30+ languages (yes)
- Emotion or speaking-style control (yes)
- Pronunciation, pacing or pitch controls (no)
- Low-latency real-time speech for voice agents (yes)
- AI dubbing or translation of video (no)
- Narration editor for video or slides (no)
- API for developers (yes)
Alternatives
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- ElevenLabs 8.7/10Creators and developers who want the most natural-sounding voices and the widest toolset
- Speechify Studio 8.0/10Creators who want strong voices plus dubbing and video editing in one cheap suite
- Cartesia 7.7/10Developers building real-time voice agents and phone bots
- Murf AI 7.7/10Marketing, training and e-learning teams producing narrated slides and videos
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