{"name":"Fish Audio","tagline":"Expressive TTS, cloning, and STT — S2.1 Pro in the web app and a byte-priced API.","url":"https://fish.audio","category":"audio","pricing":"freemium","price_note":"web app free to start (personal use); API pay-as-you-go, no monthly minimum — s2.1-pro $15/M UTF-8 bytes, s2.1-pro-free $0 (fair use, no TTFA/DPA), ASR transcribe-1 $0.36/audio-hour","free_tier":true,"open_source":false,"api":true,"self_host":false,"verdict":"situational","verdict_text":"Voice platform with an unusually readable API card: $15 per million UTF-8 bytes of input text (~12h speech), plus a $0 s2.1-pro-free string for prototypes. Free web plan is personal-use. Commercial rights and latency SLAs are paid. Not ElevenLabs, not CosyVoice. No production dub in this pass.","limitations":["Free web plan is personal use; monetized/YouTube needs a paid plan (vendor FAQ).","s2.1-pro-free has no TTFA or DPA guarantees — not a production SLA.","API concurrency starts at 5 in-flight until you prepaid ≥$100.","fish.audio/pricing 404'd; the live card is docs.fish.audio models-pricing."],"strengths":["Unusually readable API pricing by UTF-8 byte of input text.","$0 s2.1-pro-free tier for prototypes.","Covers TTS, voice cloning, and STT in one platform."],"use_for":["Projects that need transparent byte-based TTS billing.","Prototyping voice pipelines without a monthly minimum.","Creators who need cloning plus STT alongside TTS."],"skip_when":["You need commercial rights or latency SLAs without paying.","You cannot meet the $100 prepaid threshold for higher API concurrency.","You need a public pricing page rather than the docs card."],"receipts":["https://docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/models-pricing/pricing-and-rate-limits","https://docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/models-pricing/models-overview"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"blueshift","featured":false,"last_verified":"2026-08-19","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"fish-audio","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/fish-audio/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}