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Fish Audio Pricing in 2026: Plans Explained

📅 November 12, 2026 ⏱️ 26 min read
Fish Audio Pricing in 2026: Plans Explained

Quick note before we start: Fish Audio does run a public affiliate program — 20% for 12 months through FirstPromoter — but Affitrove isn’t enrolled in it yet, so the links in this article are plain links. I don’t earn anything if you sign up, and that doesn’t change a word of what follows. Every price here was read off Fish Audio’s own plan page on November 12, 2026. If a number looks different when you check, trust the live page over me.

Fish Audio’s pricing page confused me in a way no other voice tool’s page has this year — and I’ve now done this for ElevenLabs, Murf and Cartesia. Not because the prices are complicated. There are only three plans. The confusion is that the page quietly disagrees with itself in two places, a whole pricing tier vanished sometime between Tuesday and today, and the launch deal I quoted in my last Fish Audio article expired while I was writing this one. So this isn’t just a price list. It’s a price list plus the two traps, the missing tier, and the deal that’s already gone.

I read the whole plan page twice, checked it against the affiliate terms, and did the cost-per-minute math from the plan cards themselves. Here’s everything, in plain language.

The 30-second version

If you just want the answer and you’re in a hurry, here it is:

  • Free — $0 a month. 8,000 credits, roughly 7 minutes of speech a month. Fine for testing a voice. Personal use only — don’t build a product or a monetised video on it, whatever one line on the plan card seems to say.
  • Plus — $15 a month, or $11 a month billed annually ($132 a year). 250,000 credits, roughly 200 minutes of speech, commercial use included, one professional voice clone slot. This is the plan most people should buy, and at about five and a half cents a minute on annual billing, it’s one of the cheapest commercial voice plans around.
  • Pro — $100 a month, or $75 a month billed annually ($900 a year). 2 million credits, roughly 1,620 minutes — 27 hours — of speech, three team seats, five professional clone slots, and a 7-day money-back guarantee. For teams and heavy volume.
  • The Max tier is gone. The $999-a-month plan was still listed on November 10. Today it’s not on the page at all. Pro is now the top self-serve plan.
  • The Drama 3 launch deal is over. The 50% off plans ended before today, and the 80%-off API price ($10 per million characters instead of $50) ends at 22:00 PKT tonight, November 12. By the time most people read this, it’s gone.
  • The catch to know about: Fish Audio’s own page gives two different answers for how many credits a minute of speech costs — the plan cards imply about 1,250, the FAQ says about 600. I’ve done the math from the cards, and I’ll show you both numbers so you can judge for yourself.

Want the detail? Keep reading. The rest of this article is the math behind those bullets.

Fish Audio pricing at a glance

Fish Audio sells one thing three ways: text-to-speech in the web app, billed by credits. The plans differ in how many credits you get, how long a single generation can be, how many voices you can keep, and whether you can use the output commercially. There’s also a separate pay-as-you-go API, which I’ll cover in its own section — it doesn’t use subscription credits at all.

Plan Monthly Annual (per month) Per year Credits / month Speech / month Max per generation
Free $0 $0 $0 8,000 ~7 min 500 chars
Plus $15 $11 $132 250,000 ~200 min 15,000 chars
Pro $100 $75 $900 2,000,000 ~1,620 min 30,000 chars

Annual billing saves $48 a year on Plus (26.7%) and $300 a year on Pro (25%). The page header describes annual billing as “3 months off,” which checks out: pay for nine months, get twelve. You can switch between monthly and annual whenever you like, and the page says annual saves “at least 25%” — on Plus it saves a touch more.

One thing worth knowing up front: the old pricing page at fish.audio/pricing now returns a 404. Pricing lives at fish.audio/plan these days. If you followed an old bookmark and landed on an error page, that’s why.

How Fish Audio credits actually work

This is the part that trips people up, so let’s get it straight before we talk about individual plans.

A credit is Fish Audio’s unit of speech. You spend credits every time you generate audio, and the plan page gives you two numbers to work with: a monthly credit allowance, and an approximate number of minutes that allowance buys. Plus gets 250,000 credits for about 200 minutes; Pro gets 2 million for about 1,620 minutes. Do the division and you get roughly 1,250 credits per minute of speech.

Here’s the problem. Fish Audio’s own FAQ, on the very same page, says a minute of speech costs about 600 credits. Those two numbers can’t both be right. If the FAQ were right, Plus would buy over 400 minutes, not 200. If the cards are right, the FAQ is off by a factor of two.

I’ve done all the cost math in this article from the plan cards — the minutes printed next to the credit allowances — because those are the numbers Fish Audio puts in front of you when you’re choosing a plan, and they’re the conservative ones. If the FAQ turns out to be the true rate, you’d get twice as much speech as I quote here, which would only make Fish Audio cheaper than I say it is. But I’m not going to promise you 400 minutes on a plan that advertises 200.

A few details from the plan page that matter in practice:

  • Credits reset monthly and do not roll over. Unused credits vanish at the end of the billing period. This is the opposite of Cartesia, where credits stack up to twice your allowance — and it changes how you should pick a plan. A quiet month on Fish Audio is wasted money; on Cartesia it’s banked capacity.
  • Per-generation caps are real limits. Free tops out at 500 characters per generation — about 40 seconds of speech. Plus allows 15,000 characters (roughly 20 minutes in one go), Pro 30,000 (roughly 40 minutes). Long scripts need splitting on the free tier, and even on Plus a full audiobook chapter might need two passes.
  • Drama 3 uses the same credits as S2.1 Pro in the web app. The multi-voice model doesn’t cost extra per credit — you just burn through your allowance the same way.
  • Subscription credits don’t pay for API use. The API is a separate pay-as-you-go bill. If you’re building an app, you’re not choosing between Plus and the API — you’re choosing whether you need both.
  • Priority generation starts on Plus. Paid plans jump the queue on the latest models. On the free tier, expect to wait when the service is busy.

Here’s the mental model I ended up with: credits are your monthly fuel, the per-generation cap is the size of each trip, and there’s no fuel tank — whatever you don’t burn this month is gone. Once that clicks, the rest of the page makes sense.

Free plan: $0 a month

The free plan gives you 8,000 credits a month — about 7 minutes of speech — plus three public voice slots and instant voice cloning from a short audio clip. No card required, which is how a free tier should work.

Seven minutes is enough to test whether Fish Audio’s voices fit your project, clone your own voice once, and generate a short demo. It’s genuinely useful as a trial. But it comes with two limits that matter more than the minute count.

First, the per-generation cap of 500 characters. That’s about 40 seconds of audio per generation. Anything longer — a YouTube intro, a podcast segment, a product demo — has to be generated in pieces and stitched together. It’s doable, but it’s fiddly, and the seams show.

Second, and more important: the free plan is personal use only. Fish Audio’s plan-page FAQ says free users may use output for personal, non-commercial projects only, and that commercial use requires a paid plan. But the Free plan card itself lists “Commercial use” among its features. The page contradicts itself, in writing, on the same screen.

I’m going with the FAQ here, because it’s the more specific statement and it’s the one that matches how every other voice tool in this space works — ElevenLabs, Murf and Cartesia all restrict commercial use to paid plans too. But if you’re reading this and thinking “the card says commercial use,” you’re not misreading. Fish Audio needs to fix that card. Until they do, don’t build anything you’re going to sell or monetise on the free tier. Fifteen dollars a month is a cheap insurance policy against a licensing argument you don’t want to have.

Who it’s for: anyone comparing voices before committing, and anyone who wants to hear their own cloned voice before paying. If you’re making anything for real users or real money, move on to Plus.

Plus plan: $15 a month ($11 annual)

Plus is the plan this whole article is really about, because it’s where Fish Audio stops being a demo and starts being a tool.

For $15 a month — or $11 a month if you pay annually, $132 for the year — you get 250,000 credits, about 200 minutes of speech, a commercial use licence, Voice Design, priority generation on the latest models, and one professional voice clone slot. Voice slots jump to unlimited public voices plus 10 private ones.

Two hundred minutes a month is a lot of speech. That’s a weekly podcast episode, a daily YouTube narration, or a full audiobook chapter every few days. And the per-generation cap of 15,000 characters means you can generate a 20-minute script in a single pass instead of chopping it into pieces.

Let’s do the cost math, because this is where Plus shines:

  • About $0.075 per minute of speech on monthly billing. Fifteen dollars divided by 200 minutes.
  • About $0.055 per minute on annual billing. Eleven dollars divided by 200 minutes — and that’s the cheapest commercial subscription rate I’ve found in this whole pricing series, except Cartesia’s $0.04.
  • A 1,000-word blog post’s narration costs about $0.37. Five thousand characters is roughly 6,250 credits at the card rate, and Plus buys credits at $60 per million on monthly billing. A ten-minute YouTube voiceover runs you about seventy-five cents, or fifty-five on annual billing.
  • Annual billing saves $48 a year — the difference between $180 paid monthly and $132 paid once.

Plus has one weakness, and it’s the same one as the free tier: credits don’t roll over. If you generate 100 minutes in a busy month and 20 the next, you paid for 200 both times. The annual plan softens the blow — $11 a month is cheap enough that a quiet month stings less — but the math still rewards people who use the tool steadily. If your output is spiky, the pay-as-you-go API (about $0.021 a minute) might actually be cheaper for the overflow. I’ll come back to that in the API section.

Who it’s for: YouTubers and podcasters narrating their own scripts, indie creators who need a commercial licence and a proper clone of their own voice, and anyone generating up to three hours of speech a month. If you’re under 200 minutes, this is your plan — and honestly, at eleven dollars a month on annual billing, it’s hard to argue with.

Pro plan: $100 a month ($75 annual)

Pro is an 8x jump in credits for roughly 6.7x the price, which tells you something about how Fish Audio thinks about scale: the per-unit price gets better as you go up, but not dramatically. You get 2 million credits — about 1,620 minutes, or 27 hours of speech — plus three team seats, five professional clone slots, and a 7-day money-back guarantee. The per-generation cap doubles to 30,000 characters, roughly 40 minutes in a single generation.

What actually changes at this tier isn’t just volume. Three seats means a small team can share one subscription instead of buying three Plus plans. Five professional clone slots means you can keep proper trained clones of your main voices — a host, a co-host, a narrator, a character voice, and a spare — instead of choosing which one voice matters most. And the 7-day money-back guarantee, which only Pro gets, means you can test the full tier and walk away if it doesn’t fit.

The cost math:

  • About $0.062 per minute on monthly billing. A hundred dollars divided by 1,620 minutes.
  • About $0.046 per minute on annual billing. Seventy-five dollars divided by 1,620 minutes — the best subscription rate Fish Audio offers, and cheaper than ElevenLabs Creator ($0.18) and Murf Creator ($0.16 annual) by a wide margin.
  • Annual billing saves $300 a year — $900 instead of $1,200.
  • One quirk worth noting: Plus on annual billing ($0.055 a minute) is actually cheaper per minute than Pro on monthly billing ($0.062). If you’re choosing between the two, the annual Plus plan beats monthly Pro on price per minute — Pro only wins if you genuinely need the volume, the seats, or the extra clone slots.

Pro’s real audience is teams and heavy users: agencies producing client voiceovers, podcast networks, audiobook producers, and anyone generating more than three hours of speech a month. If you’re reading this section wondering whether you need it, the honest answer is probably not — yet. Start on Plus, and when you find yourself rationing credits in the last week of the month, that’s your signal to upgrade.

Who it’s for: small teams, agencies, and creators whose monthly output has outgrown Plus. If you’re burning through 250,000 credits before the month is half over, Pro pays for itself.

What happened to the Max plan?

If you read an older Fish Audio pricing guide, you’ll see a fourth plan: Max, at $999 a month ($749 a month on annual billing, $8,988 a year), with 25 million credits, about 6,250 minutes, 10 seats and 15 professional clone slots. It was still listed on the plan page on November 10 — one pricing tracker captured it that day with its first-year promo price intact.

Today, November 12, it’s gone. The plan page shows three cards: Free, Plus, Pro. No Max, no mention of it, no “contact sales” replacement in its place.

I can’t tell you the exact day it disappeared or whether Fish Audio formally retired it, because there’s no announcement I could find — just its absence from the page and one independent guide saying Fish Audio “retired the old Max tier in late 2026.” What I can tell you is the practical consequence: Pro is now the top self-serve plan. If you need more than 2 million credits a month, your options are the pay-as-you-go API or an enterprise quote. There’s no self-serve tier above Pro anymore.

This matters if you’re migrating from an older guide that recommends Max for high-volume work. That recommendation is now two days out of date. And it’s a reminder of something I’ve learned across this whole pricing series: voice-AI pricing moves fast. Cartesia killed its annual discount this year too. Check the live page before you commit to any plan, no matter how recent the article you’re reading is — including this one, a month from now.

The Drama 3 launch deal — ending today

Fish Audio launched Drama 3 on October 13, 2026, and the launch came with a deal: 50% off subscription plans and 80% off the Drama 3 API. For a few weeks it was the best offer in voice AI — Plus at $7.50 for the first month or $5.50 a month for the first year, Pro at $50 or $37.50, and Drama 3 API at $10 per million characters instead of $50.

That deal is over, and the timing matters, so let me be precise about what’s gone and what hasn’t — as of the moment I checked, on November 12.

The 50% off plans is already gone. The plan page today shows standard prices with no promo banner. The discount was last confirmed live on October 28, and a pricing tracker still showed the promo prices on November 10. Somewhere between then and this afternoon, it ended. If you see an article or a coupon blog quoting Plus at $7.50 or Pro at $50, that article is out of date. Don’t budget around it.

The 80%-off API price ends tonight. The Drama 3 API at $10 per million characters (instead of the $50 list price) runs until 17:00 UTC on November 12 — that’s 22:00 PKT tonight. As I write this, there are still a few hours left on it. By the time most people read this article, it will have expired and Drama 3 API will cost $50 per million characters. I’ve written the API section below at the list price for exactly that reason, with the promo noted as ending today.

Drama 3 itself is worth a sentence, because it’s the reason Fish Audio has been getting so much attention lately. It’s a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model (about 3 billion parameters active at a time) that can voice up to 16 characters in a single script, takes inline direction like [whispering] and [laughing], and covers 83 languages. The weights are open on Hugging Face under Fish Audio’s Community License — free commercial use under $500,000 in combined annual revenue, with a separate licence needed for hosted TTS services, and no cloning real people without consent. In the web app, Drama 3 costs the same credits as S2.1 Pro, so you don’t pay extra to use it — you just spend your allowance the same way.

The API: pay-as-you-go, and the cheapest route for volume

Here’s the part most pricing explainers skip, and it’s the part that can save you real money. Fish Audio’s API is a completely separate bill from the subscriptions, priced per million UTF-8 bytes, and for high volume it’s dramatically cheaper than any subscription plan.

API model / service Price Works out to
s2.1-pro (recommended production model) $15 per 1M UTF-8 bytes ~$0.021/min (~$1.25/hr)
s2-pro $15 per 1M UTF-8 bytes ~$0.021/min
s1 (deprecated) $15 per 1M UTF-8 bytes ~$0.021/min
s2.1-pro-free $0 Free through Nov 30, 2026
Drama 3 $50 per 1M UTF-8 bytes (list) ~$0.069/min (~$4.17/hr)
Speech-to-text (Transcribe 1 / stream-1) $0.36 per audio hour —
Voice Design $0.01 per successful request —

A million UTF-8 bytes is roughly 180,000 English words, or about 12 hours of speech — that’s Fish Audio’s own conversion from their docs. So $15 per million works out to about two cents a minute, less than half the cheapest subscription rate (Pro annual, $0.046). If you’re generating more than a few hours a month through code rather than the web app, the API is the cheapest way to buy Fish Audio speech, full stop.

A few things to know before you build on it:

  • s2.1-pro-free costs nothing through November 30, 2026 — but with fair-use limits and no latency or service guarantee. It’s for testing, not production.
  • S1 retires December 31, 2026. If you’re still calling it, requests will auto-migrate to s2.1-pro at the same $15 price. You don’t need to change anything, but you should know the model behind your calls is changing.
  • Concurrency scales with what you’ve spent. Under $100 in lifetime spend you get 5 concurrent requests; $100 or more buys 15; $1,000 or more buys 50. Small projects start small.
  • No subscription needed for the API. You can use it with no plan at all. And subscription credits can’t pay for API calls — the two systems are separate.
  • Non-Latin scripts cost more per word. A character in Chinese or Arabic takes 2–4 bytes, so the same sentence costs more than its English equivalent. If you’re generating in other languages, budget for that.
  • Speech-to-text is cheap. Thirty-six cents per audio hour for transcription, including the newer Transcribe 1 Pro with speaker turns, emotion cues and word timestamps (API-only for now, launched September 18).

The practical point: if you’re a creator using the web app, the subscriptions are your world. If you’re a developer building a product, the API is almost certainly cheaper — and the gap is big enough that it’s worth doing the sums before you buy a Pro plan for a job the API would do for half the price.

Cost per minute: Fish Audio vs the competition

Most people reading this are choosing between Fish Audio and one of the other voice tools, so let’s put the numbers side by side. I’ve covered the other three in detail — my ElevenLabs pricing breakdown, my Murf pricing explainer and my Cartesia pricing explainer — and the full head-to-head is in my ElevenLabs vs Fish Audio comparison. Here’s the short version.

Price Cost per minute Commercial licence
Fish Audio Plus (annual) $11/mo ~$0.055 Yes
Fish Audio Pro (annual) $75/mo ~$0.046 Yes
Fish Audio API (s2.1-pro) $15/1M chars ~$0.021 Yes
Cartesia Pro $5/mo ~$0.04 Yes
ElevenLabs Creator (annual) $18.33/mo ~$0.18 Yes
Murf Creator (annual) $19/mo ~$0.16 Yes

Fish Audio’s subscription rates sit in the middle of the pack: much cheaper than ElevenLabs and Murf, a little more expensive than Cartesia. But Fish Audio’s API undercuts all of them — $0.021 a minute is half of Cartesia’s best subscription rate and roughly a ninth of ElevenLabs Creator’s.

Price isn’t the whole story, of course. ElevenLabs still has the biggest voice library and the most mature dubbing and studio tools — that’s what its premium buys. Murf has the strongest studio workflow for video teams. Cartesia is the latency king for voice agents. Fish Audio’s case is different: multi-voice Drama 3 dialogue, 83 languages, open weights you can run yourself, and an API so cheap it changes what kinds of products are viable. If your project is dialogue-heavy, multilingual, or API-driven, Fish Audio wins on the numbers and it isn’t close. If you want the best-sounding single narrator for a YouTube video and you don’t mind paying for it, ElevenLabs still has a case.

Voice cloning: instant vs professional

Fish Audio offers two kinds of cloning, and they’re not the same thing — a distinction worth getting right before you pay for a plan.

Instant cloning takes a short audio clip — as little as 10 seconds, though some of Fish Audio’s own pages say 15 — and generates speech in that voice. It’s available on every plan, including free, and there are no ownership checks on instant clones. That’s on you: you’re responsible for having the rights to the voice you’re cloning, and for getting consent. Don’t clone someone else’s voice without permission. Fish Audio removed cloned voices of French dubbing actors earlier this year after legal notices, which tells you how seriously this can get.

Professional cloning is the serious version. It needs 10 to 180 minutes of audio, passes a live ownership verification, and produces a noticeably better clone. But it’s plan-gated: Plus includes one professional slot, Pro includes five. If you need more, you’re buying a bigger plan or an enterprise conversation. Professional cloning is also what the voice library is built on — Fish Audio claims more than 2 million community voices, and the professional clones are the ones worth using.

One more detail: instant clones on the free tier are fine for testing, but remember the free tier’s personal-use-only restriction. A clone of your own voice, generated on the free plan, still can’t be used in monetised content until you’re on a paid plan.

Which Fish Audio plan should you pick?

Forget the feature tables for a minute. Pick by what you’re actually doing:

  • Testing voices or comparing tools? Free. Seven minutes is enough to hear the voices and clone your own once. Just don’t build anything commercial on it.
  • Narrating videos, podcasts or audiobooks? Plus, on annual billing. At about five and a half cents a minute, a ten-minute video costs fifty-five cents to voice, and the commercial licence covers you.
  • Building an app or a product? Skip the subscriptions and start with the API. At about two cents a minute, it’s the cheapest Fish Audio speech there is — and the free s2.1-pro tier costs nothing through November 30 while you prototype.
  • Producing dialogue, drama or multi-character audio? Plus or Pro, for Drama 3. Sixteen voices in one script is something no other tool in this price range does, and it costs the same credits as regular speech.
  • Running a small team or agency? Pro, for the three seats, the five professional clone slots and the 7-day money-back guarantee. Start on Plus and upgrade when you’re rationing credits in the last week of the month.
  • Generating in many languages? Any paid plan — 83 languages come with the current models. But watch the byte math on the API: non-Latin scripts cost more per word.
  • Unsure between two plans? Start lower. The one thing Fish Audio doesn’t give you is rollover, so a quiet month on Pro wastes far more than a quiet month on Plus. You can upgrade whenever the credits run dry.

And if you’re looking for a genuinely free voice for commercial use, not just a trial — that’s a different question, and I wrote a whole guide to it: 7 free text-to-speech tools with commercial use. Fish Audio’s free tier isn’t on that list, because of the licence. Worth knowing before you build on it.

Frequently asked questions

Is Fish Audio really only $15 a month?

Yes. The Plus plan is $15 a month billed monthly, or $11 a month if you pay annually — $132 for the year. There used to be a 50%-off Drama 3 launch deal that cut it to $7.50 for the first month or $5.50 a month for the first year, but that deal has ended. $15 is the price now.

How many minutes of speech does 250,000 credits buy?

About 200 minutes, according to the plan cards on Fish Audio’s own page. That’s because the cards imply roughly 1,250 credits per minute. But Fish Audio’s own FAQ says a minute costs about 600 credits, which would mean over 400 minutes. The page contradicts itself, so I’ve used the plan-card figure — the conservative one — throughout this article. If the FAQ is right, you get twice as much as I quote.

Do Fish Audio credits roll over?

No. Credits reset every month and unused credits are lost. That’s different from Cartesia, where credits stack up to twice your allowance. Plan for it: pick the tier you’ll actually use each month, and if your usage is spiky, the pay-as-you-go API might be cheaper for the overflow.

Can I use the free plan commercially?

Almost certainly not. The plan-page FAQ says free users may use output for personal, non-commercial projects only and that commercial use needs a paid plan. The Free plan card lists “Commercial use” as a feature, which contradicts the FAQ — but the FAQ is the more specific statement, and it matches how every other voice tool works. Don’t build anything you’ll sell or monetise on the free tier.

What happened to the Max plan?

It was $999 a month ($749 annual) with 25 million credits, and it was still listed on November 10. On November 12 it’s gone from the plan page entirely, with no announcement I could find. Pro is now the top self-serve plan. If you need more than Pro offers, it’s the API or an enterprise quote.

Is there a Black Friday deal for Fish Audio in 2026?

Not that I could find. I checked the plan page and announcements on November 12, 2026, and there’s no Black Friday offer listed — no discount code, no sale banner, nothing. The Drama 3 launch deal, which was the closest thing to a current promotion, ends today. Black Friday is November 27, so something could still appear — but as of today, there’s nothing, and I wouldn’t plan a purchase around a deal that doesn’t exist yet.

Does Fish Audio have an affiliate program?

Yes — and it’s a real one. Twenty percent commission for 12 months on monthly plans (a one-time commission on the full yearly payment for annual plans), run through FirstPromoter, paid monthly by PayPal or Wise, with a possible upgrade to 30% for top affiliates. But Affitrove isn’t enrolled yet, so the links in this article are plain links. One rule worth knowing if you ever promote Fish Audio yourself: the terms ban coupon sites, paid ads and bidding on brand keywords. That’s why you won’t find Fish Audio on my discounts page either — it stays in articles and reviews only.

Is the Drama 3 API still $10 per million characters?

Only until 22:00 PKT tonight, November 12. The 80%-off launch price ends at 17:00 UTC, and after that Drama 3 costs the $50-per-million list price — about $0.069 a minute. If you’re reading this after November 12, the $10 price is gone. The regular s2.1-pro API at $15 per million (about $0.021 a minute) is still the cheapest way to generate Fish Audio speech at volume.

Can I clone a voice from a 10-second clip?

Yes, for instant cloning — Fish Audio says as little as 10 seconds, though some of their pages say 15. Professional cloning is different: it needs 10 to 180 minutes of audio plus a live ownership check, and it’s limited to one slot on Plus and five on Pro.

The verdict

Fish Audio’s pricing is simple once you untangle the two contradictions on the page. Three plans, no rollover, commercial use from Plus up, and an API that undercuts every subscription in the business. The $15 Plus plan — $11 on annual billing — is the story here: 200 minutes a month, a commercial licence and a professional clone slot for the price of two coffees. At about five and a half cents a minute, it’s the cheapest commercial subscription voice I’ve found this year outside Cartesia’s five-dollar outlier, and the API at two cents a minute beats everything.

The caveats are real, though. Credits don’t roll over, so spiky users waste money. The free tier’s commercial-use wording contradicts its own FAQ, and you should believe the FAQ. The Max tier vanished without a word, and the Drama 3 launch deal ended while I was writing. None of that makes Fish Audio a bad buy — it makes it a buy you should make with your eyes open, on the live page, the day you pay.

My advice: start on Free for an afternoon, see if the voices fit your project, then pay the fifteen dollars — or eleven, if you’re willing to commit for a year. And if you’re building something with code rather than narrating scripts, check the API first. Two cents a minute changes the math on a lot of projects that look expensive on a subscription.

Prices checked November 12, 2026, against fish.audio/plan and fish.audio/affiliate-terms. Fish Audio has already changed its prices twice this year — a tier removed, a deal ended — so re-check at checkout before you pay.

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