ElevenLabs vs Fish Audio on price
Fish Audio is cheaper at every volume from 1 to 100 hours of speech a month. At 10 hours a month, ElevenLabs' cheapest option is API, Flash / Turbo at $21.20 and Fish Audio's is API, S2.1-Pro at $8.10. Both sell an editor app and an API.
| Speech a month | ElevenLabs | Fish Audio |
|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | $1.76 ($0.029/min) API, Flash / Turbo | $0.81 ($0.013/min) API, S2.1-Pro |
| 5 hours | $10.40 ($0.035/min) API, Flash / Turbo | $4.05 ($0.013/min) API, S2.1-Pro |
| 10 hours | $21.20 ($0.035/min) API, Flash / Turbo | $8.10 ($0.013/min) API, S2.1-Pro |
| 50 hours | $108 ($0.036/min) API, Flash / Turbo | $40.50 ($0.013/min) API, S2.1-Pro |
| 100 hours | $216 ($0.036/min) API, Flash / Turbo | $81 ($0.013/min) API, S2.1-Pro |
Each side's cheapest option for the volume, monthly billing where offered, free allowances included; bold marks the cheaper. Per-minute figures assume 900 characters of text per minute of speech.
What the numbers say
- How fast the speech is changes the bill for text-billed plans: at 10 hours a month, ElevenLabs costs $16.88 at 720 characters a minute and $23.60 at 1,000; Fish Audio $6.48 and $9.
- On ElevenLabs, the API is cheaper than the editor app at every volume from 1 to 100 hours a month.
- On Fish Audio, the API is cheaper than the editor app at every volume from 1 to 100 hours a month.
Where the cheaper one changes
ElevenLabs is cheaper up to 18 minutes (16,000 characters) and Fish Audio is cheaper above that, to 100 hours of speech a month.
Plans against pay as you go
| Plan | A month | Minutes included | Same minutes, its own pay as you go | Same minutes on the other side |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs Starter (app) | $6 $0.18/min | 33 | $0.80 API, Flash / Turbo | $0.45 Fish Audio, API, S2.1-Pro |
| ElevenLabs Creator (app) | $22 $0.164/min | 134 | $4.44 API, Flash / Turbo | $1.82 Fish Audio, API, S2.1-Pro |
| ElevenLabs Pro (app) | $99 $0.149/min | 667 | $23.60 API, Flash / Turbo | $9 Fish Audio, API, S2.1-Pro |
| ElevenLabs Scale (app) | $299 $0.149/min | 2,000 | $71.60 API, Flash / Turbo | $27 Fish Audio, API, S2.1-Pro |
| ElevenLabs Business (app) | $990 $0.148/min | 6,667 | $240 API, Flash / Turbo | $90 Fish Audio, API, S2.1-Pro |
| Fish Audio Plus | $15 $0.075/min | 200 | $2.70 API, S2.1-Pro | $6.80 ElevenLabs, API, Flash / Turbo |
| Fish Audio Pro | $100 $0.062/min | 1,620 | $21.87 API, S2.1-Pro | $57.92 ElevenLabs, API, Flash / Turbo |
| Fish Audio Max | $999 $0.16/min | 6,250 | $84.38 API, S2.1-Pro | $225 ElevenLabs, API, Flash / Turbo |
- Used in full, none of the 5 ElevenLabs plans costs less than Fish Audio charges for the same minutes; the best value, Business (app), works out at $0.148 a minute against $0.013 on Fish Audio.
- Used in full, none of the 3 Fish Audio plans costs less than ElevenLabs charges for the same minutes; the best value, Pro, works out at $0.062 a minute against $0.036 on ElevenLabs.
Every ElevenLabs option at 10 hours a month
| Option | A month | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| API, Flash / Turbo | $21.20 | $0.035 |
| API, v2 Multilingual | $42.40 | $0.071 |
| Pro (app) | $99 | $0.165 |
| Scale (app) | $299 | $0.498 |
| Business (app) | $990 | $1.65 |
| Starter (app) | Bigger plan | – |
| Creator (app) | Bigger plan | – |
Every Fish Audio option at 10 hours a month
| Option | A month | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| API, S2.1-Pro Billed per UTF-8 byte of text: one a character in plain English, more for accented and non-Latin letters. S2-Pro and S1 cost the same. | $8.10 | $0.013 |
| Pro Fish Audio states up to 1,620 minutes from 2,000,000 credits a month; 3 seats. | $100 | $0.167 |
| Max Fish Audio states up to 6,250 minutes from 25,000,000 credits a month; 10 seats. | $999 | $1.67 |
| Plus Fish Audio states up to 200 minutes from 250,000 credits a month. | Bigger plan | – |
"Bigger plan" means the plan's minutes run out before 10 hours and no extra-minute price is published.
ElevenLabs or Fish Audio: quick answers
Is ElevenLabs cheaper than Fish Audio?
It depends on how much speech you make: ElevenLabs is cheaper up to 18 minutes (16,000 characters) and Fish Audio is cheaper above that, to 100 hours of speech a month. At 10 hours a month the cheaper side saves $13.10 a month, $157 a year: ElevenLabs on API, Flash / Turbo costs $21.20 and Fish Audio on API, S2.1-Pro $8.10.
ElevenLabs or Fish Audio: which costs less for 1, 10 or 100 hours of speech a month?
For 1 hour a month, Fish Audio ($0.81 on API, S2.1-Pro, against $1.76 on ElevenLabs' API, Flash / Turbo). For 10 hours, Fish Audio ($8.10 on API, S2.1-Pro, against $21.20 on ElevenLabs' API, Flash / Turbo). For 100 hours, Fish Audio ($81 on API, S2.1-Pro, against $216 on ElevenLabs' API, Flash / Turbo). Each side's cheapest option, billed monthly where it can be, at 900 characters a minute.
What do ElevenLabs and Fish Audio cost per minute?
ElevenLabs: plans from $6 to $990 a month, $0.148 to $0.18 a minute with the allowance used in full and $0.036 to $0.072 a minute pay as you go ($0.04 to $0.08 per 1,000 characters). Fish Audio: plans from $15 to $999 a month, $0.062 to $0.16 a minute with the allowance used in full and $0.013 a minute pay as you go ($0.015 per 1,000 UTF-8 bytes). Minutes assume 900 characters of text each.
Do ElevenLabs and Fish Audio have a free tier?
ElevenLabs: Its Free plan includes 10,000 credits a month at one credit per character, and its API price table lists 10,000 free characters a month, “~10 min” by ElevenLabs' own reckoning. 10,000 characters is about 11 minutes of speech. Fish Audio: Its Free plan lists “8,000 credits monthly” and “Up to 7 minutes generation”, and its FAQ says “Free plan users can only use generated content for personal, non-commercial projects.” On the API, s2.1-pro-free is “The same model as S2.1-Pro, available at $0 for development and testing”, “Free to use under fair-use limits”.
How do ElevenLabs and Fish Audio charge for speech?
ElevenLabs: In the app, speech costs one credit per character; on the API, ElevenLabs says “API usage is billed in US dollars, not credits.” Fish Audio: The app plans count credits: Plus lists “250,000 credits monthly” and “Up to 200 minutes generation”, while the FAQ says “Each minute of generation costs roughly 600 to 625 credits.” The API counts bytes of text: “TTS pricing is based on the size of input text, measured in millions of UTF-8 bytes.” By its own reckoning, “1M UTF-8 bytes is approximately 180,000 English words, or about 12 hours of speech”.
What does a one-off 10-hour job, an audiobook say, cost on ElevenLabs or Fish Audio?
ElevenLabs' cheapest way is pay as you go on API, Flash / Turbo, $21.20; Fish Audio's cheapest way is pay as you go on API, S2.1-Pro, $8.10.
Price only: voices, languages, latency and licences differ, so try both. Compare every voice tool for your own monthly minutes, or see every text-to-speech API.
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