Fish Audio

Fish Audio review and pricing: expressive AI text to speech and voice cloning with a free personal plan, with ElevenLabs as the main alternative.

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Overview

Fish Audio is an AI voice studio for text to speech and voice cloning. Its newest model, Drama 3, is built for emotional, expressive delivery.

You can steer a read with tags like [whispering], [sad] or [laughing], and Fish Audio's docs say at least 10 seconds of audio is enough to clone a voice, in 30+ languages. There's also an API.

Free is for personal projects only. We haven't used it for this page; it relies on Fish Audio's pricing page, homepage and terms.

Best for

Creators who want expressive character or narration voices and can live with a paid plan for anything they monetize.

Skip it if

Skip it if you need commercial use on a free plan, or don't want your uploads used to train its models.

Pricing

FreeFree

$0, no card; 8,000 credits monthly, up to 7 minutes; 500 characters per generation; personal, non-commercial use only.

3 public voice slots
Standard generation speed

Plus$15/mo

Monthly, or $11/mo billed annually ($132 a year); 250,000 credits, up to 200 minutes; 15,000 characters per generation.

Commercial use
Voice Design
1 professional voice slot

Pro$100/mo

Monthly, or $75/mo billed annually ($900 a year); 2,000,000 credits, up to 1,620 minutes; 3 team seats.

5 professional voice slots
7-day money-back guarantee

Max$999/mo

Monthly, or $749/mo billed annually ($8,988 a year); 25,000,000 credits, up to 6,250 minutes; 10 team seats.

15 professional voice slots

EnterpriseCustom

Sales quote, billed annually.

Zero data retention
On-premise deployment

Fish Audio has a free personal plan; Plus is $15/mo or $11/mo billed yearly, Pro $100 or $75, and Max $999 or $749. Checked Oct 20, 2026 on the official pricing page.

Pros

Emotion tags. Tags like [whispering], [sad] and [laughing] change the delivery inside one script.
Fast cloning. Fish Audio's docs say at least 10 seconds of audio is enough to clone a voice.
Big voice library. It lists 2,000,000+ user-uploaded voices to pick from.
No card to start. The free plan needs no credit card.

Cons

Commercial use covers your own voices. Its FAQ says paid subscribers can use verified voices that they own for commercial purposes, so library voices may not qualify.
Your content can train its models. Its terms say usage data and content may be used to develop and train its AI models.
No partial refunds. Its terms say cancelling stops renewal but doesn't refund the rest of the current period.

How it compares

Fish Audio and ElevenLabs both do expressive speech and cloning. ElevenLabs Starter is $6/mo and includes commercial rights; Fish Audio's first paid plan, Plus, is $15/mo or $11/mo billed yearly.

Pick Fish Audio for emotion tags and a huge voice library. Pick ElevenLabs for cheaper commercial use.

Quick start

Sign up free at fish.audio.
Pick a voice from the library or upload a short clip to clone one.
Paste your script and add tags like [excited] or [break].
Generate and play it back, then adjust the tags.
Upgrade to Plus before you publish anything commercial.

Verdict

Fish Audio is a strong pick for expressive character and narration voices, and Free is fine for trying it on personal projects. Skip it if you need free commercial use or don't want your uploads used for model training.