Fish Audio
Top-ten voices and cloning at a lower price than ElevenLabs.
Best valueFree planOpen
- Best for
- Long voiceovers on a budget
- On your PC
- No, online only
- Works on
- Web, iPhone, Android, API
- License
- Fish Audio Community License
What’s good
- Best open-weight model on the speech arena
- About three times more minutes per dollar than ElevenLabs
- Voice cloning included even on the free plan
Downsides
- Open weights need a data-centre GPU, not a home PC
- Commercial use of the weights only under $500k revenue
- Free plan terms conflict on commercial use
At a glance.
- Best for
- Long voiceovers on a budget
- Price
- Free plan, then $15/mo
- For developers
- About $15 per 1M characters
- Version
- Drama 3Released 2026-10
- Works on
- Web, iPhone, Android, API
- Open source
- Yes, Fish Audio Community License
- Made by
- Fish Audio
- Website
- fish.audio
How it ranks.
- Artificial Analysis Speech Arena (Drama 3)#7 · 12722026-11-05
- TTS Arena V2 (OpenAudio S2)#12 · 15142026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
No. It only runs online.
Your prompts and files go to the company’s servers. See the local options in this category for a private alternative.
Want it offline? The best local option for text to speech is Kokoro.