Fish Audio pricing: plans and API per minute
Fish Audio's plans cost $15 to $999 a month for 200 to 6,250 minutes of audio, which is $0.062 to $0.16 a minute if you use the whole allowance. No price is published for extra minutes, so a bigger month means a bigger plan. Fish Audio's API charges $15 per million UTF-8 bytes of text, a byte a character in plain English, which is $0.013 a minute of speech at 900 characters a minute.
Plans
| Plan | Per minute | Monthly | Yearly, per month | Minutes a month | Extra minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plus Fish Audio states up to 200 minutes from 250,000 credits a month. | $0.075 | $15 | $11 | 200 | Not listed |
| Pro Fish Audio states up to 1,620 minutes from 2,000,000 credits a month; 3 seats. | $0.062 | $100 | $75 | 1,620 | Not listed |
| Max Fish Audio states up to 6,250 minutes from 25,000,000 credits a month; 10 seats. | $0.16 | $999 | $749 | 6,250 | Not listed |
Per minute uses the monthly price where there is one and assumes the allowance is used in full.
Pay as you go
| Voice or model | Per minute | Per 1M characters | Free each month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | $0.013 | $15 UTF-8 bytes | With limits |
What 1, 10 and 100 hours a month cost
| Option | 1 hour | 10 hours | 100 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plus | $15 | Bigger plan | Bigger plan |
| Pro | $100 | $100 | Bigger plan |
| Max | $999 | $999 | $999 |
| API, S2.1-Pro | $0.81 | $8.10 | $81 |
Monthly billing where the plan offers it, otherwise the yearly price per month; free allowances included. "Bigger plan" means the plan's minutes run out and no extra-minute price is published.
How Fish Audio bills
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”.
Quick answers
How much does Fish Audio cost per minute?
$0.013 to $0.16 a minute of speech, depending on the plan, or on the API, at 900 characters a minute and with each plan’s allowance used in full.
What do 10 hours of speech a month cost on Fish Audio?
$8.10 a month on API, S2.1-Pro, the cheapest option for that volume; the most expensive, Max, costs $999.
Does Fish Audio have a free tier?
Yes, with limits. 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”. Our prices leave it out.
Is anything cheaper than Fish Audio?
At 10 hours a month: 1 of the 3 other app options we price costs less than Fish Audio's app at $100 (Pro); 7 of the 28 other API options we price cost less than Fish Audio's API at $8.10 (API, S2.1-Pro).
Fish Audio against the market at 2 hours a month
| # | Option | Per month | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speechify Studio Starter Billed annually. $100 a year for 24 hours of voiceover. | $8.33 | $0.069 |
| 2 | Fish Audio Plus Fish Audio states up to 200 minutes from 250,000 credits a month. | $15 | $0.125 |
| 3 | ElevenLabs Creator (app) | $22 | $0.183 |
| 4 | Speechify Studio Creator Billed annually. $300 a year for 96 hours of voiceover. | $25 | $0.208 |
| 5 | Murf Creator (Studio) Commercial rights. Annual billing pools 24 hours a year. | $29 | $0.242 |
| 6 | WellSaid Pro Counts downloaded minutes; generating is unlimited. | $49 | $0.408 |
| 7 | ElevenLabs Pro (app) | $99 | $0.825 |
| 8 | Murf Business (Studio) Business licence. Annual billing pools 96 hours a year. | $99 | $0.825 |
| 9 | Fish Audio Pro Fish Audio states up to 1,620 minutes from 2,000,000 credits a month; 3 seats. | $100 | $0.833 |
| 10 | WellSaid Business (per user) Billed annually. 2,880 downloaded minutes a year per user. | $160 | $1.33 |
| 11 | ElevenLabs Scale (app) | $299 | $2.49 |
| 12 | ElevenLabs Business (app) | $990 | $8.25 |
| 13 | Fish Audio Max Fish Audio states up to 6,250 minutes from 25,000,000 credits a month; 10 seats. | $999 | $8.32 |
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Sources
Fish Audio pricing and docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/models-pricing/pricing-and-rate-limits, read on 7 October 2026. Per-minute figures assume 900 characters of text per minute of speech for every vendor (every vendor's figure: characters per minute of speech). Price only: voices, languages, latency and licences differ.
Prices on this page were checked against the official pricing pages on .