Bland AI vs. Fish Audio

At a glance

Best for

Best for regulated industries that need phone automation on their own infrastructure and one predictable per-minute bill.

Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

Fish Audio

Best for

Best for developers and creators who want expressive text-to-speech and quick voice cloning, including open-source models.

Freelancers
Small and mid-sized

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Full Comparison

Criterion	Bland AI	Fish Audio
Starting price	lower value From $0.14 / minute of calls Start has no platform fee. Build drops the rate to $0.12 per minute but adds a $299 / month platform fee, so it pays off only above a certain call volume. Transfer time is billed separately at $0.05 per minute on Start and $0.04 on Build. Enterprise is contracted to volume.	Free tier; Plus from $15 / month Credit-based. Plus adds 250,000 credits per month, commercial use and API access; 33% off with annual billing.
Free trial	Start includes 2 credits and an inbound number, which the vendor values at $15 / month, with no card required	Free tier with 8,000 credits per month (about 7 minutes)
Commercial use	Yes, usage-based	Not stated
Output	AI phone agents for inbound and outbound calls, plus the same agents over SMS, RCS, iMessage and a web chat widget	Text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice cloning (S2.1 Pro model)
API	Yes, a REST API with a CLI, a Web Agent SDK and an MCP plugin for coding agents	Yes, REST API and SDKs
Hosting	Cloud, with self-hosted and on-premises deployments for regulated industries and US, EU and APAC data residency	Not stated
Voice cloning	Yes, built-in voices can be used or a voice cloned from your own recordings, with a professional clone tier and per-account clone limits	Yes, from about 15 seconds of audio
Real-time use	Yes, inbound and outbound calls at a stated sub-400ms response latency and up to one million concurrent calls, handling interruptions, accents and topic changes	Yes, real-time with low latency
Languages	40 or more languages out of the box, with real-time translation in 23 of them	30+ languages
Speech-to-speech and dubbing	A call runs as spoken conversation on the vendor's own speech-to-text, language model and text-to-speech, with real-time translation between languages during the call; dubbing of existing recordings is not part of the product	Yes, a Voice Changer transforms existing audio into a different voice
Editing and controls	Conversational Pathways, a node-based designer for branching calls with state, tool calls, webhooks and variable extraction, plus personas, memory across conversations, automated test scenarios, outcome tagging, custom dialling and enterprise nodes for scheduling and custom JavaScript	Emotion tags and effects such as angry, sad, excited, whispering, laughing and pauses
Consent and trust	SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI DSS v4.0, with FedRAMP 20X Class A available, AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, role-based access control with MFA, a 24/7 incident response team, BAAs for healthcare and DPAs for EU customers. Models run on the vendor's own infrastructure, so call data does not pass through third parties	Professional clones require a live voiceprint check: the speaker reads a randomised passage that is matched against the training audio. Instant clones are unverified. The terms forbid using another person's voice without permission, with a voice ownership dispute process
MCP-ready	stated Yes	No
Deployment	more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Not stated	Email helpdesk, Community forum
Onboarding	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Personal consulting	Documentation and knowledge base
Company size	Small and mid-sized, Enterprise	Freelancers, Small and mid-sized
Integrations	Twilio, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion, Zapier, Genesys, Five9, NICE CXone, Talkdesk, Amazon Connect, Calendly, Cal.com	Not stated

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Bland AI From $0.14 / minute of calls Fish Audio Free tier; Plus from $15 / month
Free trial Bland AI Start includes 2 credits and an inbound number, which the vendor values at $15 / month, with no card required Fish Audio Free tier with 8,000 credits per month (about 7 minutes)
Deployment Bland AI Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise Fish Audio Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Company size Bland AI Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Fish Audio Freelancers, Small and mid-sized
MCP-ready Bland AI Yes Fish Audio No

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Bland AI

Strengths

One per-minute rate covers the language model, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and telephony, with no token charges or provider pass-throughs
Self-hosted and on-premises deployments, plus US, EU and APAC data residency
SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI DSS v4.0, with FedRAMP 20X Class A available
The same pathways, personas and memory run across voice, SMS, RCS, iMessage and web chat

Limitations

Owning the stack means no choice of speech or language model provider
The lower $0.12 per minute rate carries a $299 / month platform fee, so it only pays off above a certain volume
Transfer time to a human is billed on top of the per-minute rate
Positioned around regulated enterprise workloads, which is more platform than a small team needs for a single use case

Fish Audio

Strengths

Fast voice cloning and expressive emotion control
Open-source models (Fish Speech and Fish Audio S2)
Large community voice library and a developer API

Limitations

API access and commercial use require a paid plan
Cloned and community voices raise consent questions

Plans

Pricing

Bland AI

Start $0.14 Per minute, with no platform fee. Includes 2 credits and an inbound number, valued by the vendor at $15 / month, and needs no card. Transfer time is $0.05 per minute.
Build $0.12 Per minute plus a $299 / month platform fee. Transfer time is $0.04 per minute.
Enterprise Not stated Contact sales. Contracted to your volume and includes dedicated infrastructure, version-controlled releases and canary deployments.

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Fish Audio

Free $0 8,000 credits per month (about 7 minutes) and 3 public voice slots. No API access.
Plus $15 / month 250,000 credits (about 200 minutes), commercial use, API access and one professional voice slot. 33% off billed annually.
Pro $100 / month 2,000,000 credits, 3 team seats and five professional voice slots. 33% off billed annually.
Max $999 / month 25,000,000 credits, 10 team seats and 15 professional voice slots.
Enterprise Not stated Custom terms with zero data retention, on-premise deployment and SOC 2 compliance.

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What users say

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Fish Audio

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Where this comes from

Bland AI https://www.bland.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-13

Fish Audio https://fish.audio · no check date recorded yet

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.