ElevenLabs vs Fish Audio

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

	ElevenLabs Audio	Fish Audio Audio
Tagline	The gold standard for AI voice cloning and TTS.	Expressive, emotion-controllable text-to-speech and voice cloning with an open-model heritage
Category	Audio	Audio
Pricing	Freemium· Free 10k chars/mo; from $5/mo Starter; up to $1320/mo Scale	Freemium· Free tier with monthly generation limits (personal, non-commercial); paid subscription plans for commercial licensing; pay-as-you-go API pricing for developers. Exact tier prices are gated behind sign-in and shift with promotional discounts (a 50% anniversary offer was live at time of review).
Model	ElevenLabs Multilingual v2	Fish Audio S2.1 Pro (in-house); S1 and S2 checkpoints open-sourced
Editorial score	9.4 / 10	—
Use cases	TTSvoice cloningaudiobooksdubbing	YouTube video voiceoverAudiobook narrationGame and animation character voicesCustomer support voice botsIVR and phone agentsAccessibility text-to-speechPodcast intro and ad readsReal-time streaming voice agentsInstant voice cloning for personal avatarsMultilingual dubbing
Pros	Best-in-class voice quality Hundreds of voices + cloning Multilingual Strong API	Emotion-tag control system ([angry], [whispering], [laughing], [pause]) gives fine prosodic steering that most TTS APIs lack Instant voice cloning from ~10-15 seconds of reference audio Voice Library of 2M+ community voices to browse instead of training your own 30+ language coverage across the same models Streaming API with low enough latency for real-time voice agents S1 and S2 model checkpoints published on GitHub for self-hosting Symmetric STT that recognises the same emotion tags used for TTS
Cons	Pro features are pricey Voice clone abuse policy needs care	Free tier is explicitly non-commercial - monetised use requires a paid plan Public pricing is opaque - tier prices sit behind sign-in and shift with promos Community-uploaded voices raise consent and IP questions the platform pushes onto the user S2.1 Pro (the best model) is closed - only older S1/S2 are open source Cloning quality on non-English voices is more uneven than on English No native long-form audiobook chaptering workflow - you script and stitch yourself
Website	elevenlabs.io	fish.audio

Pick ElevenLabs if

✅ Best-in-class voice quality
✅ Hundreds of voices + cloning
✅ Multilingual
✅ Strong API

Pick Fish Audio if

✅ Emotion-tag control system ([angry], [whispering], [laughing], [pause]) gives fine prosodic steering that most TTS APIs lack
✅ Instant voice cloning from ~10-15 seconds of reference audio
✅ Voice Library of 2M+ community voices to browse instead of training your own
✅ 30+ language coverage across the same models

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