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AI Voice & Speech Comparison

ElevenLabs vs. Fish Audio

At a glance

At a glance

ElevenLabs

Best for

Best for realistic long-form narration, dubbing and voice cloning.

  • Freelancers
  • 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 ElevenLabs Fish Audio
Starting price Free tier; Starter from ~$5 / month Commercial rights start with the paid Starter tier. API from around $300 per million characters at low 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 Free tier, restricted Free tier with 8,000 credits per month (about 7 minutes)
Commercial use From the paid Starter tier Not stated
Output Realistic narration, voice cloning from a sample of around one minute, 70+ languages, dubbing Text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice cloning (S2.1 Pro model)
API Yes Yes, REST API and SDKs
Voice cloning Yes, from a sample of around one minute Yes, from about 15 seconds of audio
Real-time use Yes. Eleven Flash v2.5 is built for real-time use at around 75 ms latency, Eleven v3 Conversational runs at around 280 ms, Scribe v2 Realtime transcribes at around 150 ms, and the ElevenAgents platform runs live voice agents over phone, chat and messaging channels Yes, real-time with low latency
Languages 70+ languages on Eleven v3 and Eleven v3 Conversational, 32 on Flash v2.5 and 29 on Multilingual v2; speech to text with Scribe v2 covers 90+ 30+ languages
Speech-to-speech and dubbing Yes, speech-to-speech and dubbing Yes, a Voice Changer transforms existing audio into a different voice
Editing and controls Stability set to Creative, Natural or Robust, speed from 0.7x to 1.2x, audio tags such as [whispers] or [excited] to direct delivery, a seed value for repeatable output, and pronunciation set through IPA, phoneme tags or an uploaded pronunciation dictionary Emotion tags and effects such as angry, sad, excited, whispering, laughing and pauses
Consent and trust Professional voice cloning is gated behind technological verification of the speaker, cloning of celebrity and other high-risk voices is blocked, and an AI Speech Classifier tells whether a clip was made with ElevenLabs 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 Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support Email helpdesk, Community forum Email helpdesk, Community forum
Onboarding Documentation and knowledge base Documentation and knowledge base
Company size more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Freelancers, Small and mid-sized
Integrations Twilio, Genesys Cloud, Five9, Vonage, LiveKit, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, Telegram, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Cal.com, Calendly Not stated

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price ElevenLabs Free tier; Starter from ~$5 / month Fish Audio Free tier; Plus from $15 / month
  • Free trial ElevenLabs Free tier, restricted Fish Audio Free tier with 8,000 credits per month (about 7 minutes)
  • Company size ElevenLabs Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Fish Audio Freelancers, Small and mid-sized
  • MCP-ready ElevenLabs Yes Fish Audio No
  • Output ElevenLabs Realistic narration, voice cloning from a sample of around one minute, 70+ languages, dubbing Fish Audio Text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice cloning (S2.1 Pro model)

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

ElevenLabs

Strengths

  • Most realistic voice and cloning
  • 70+ languages on the v3 models
  • Speech-to-speech and dubbing
  • Strong API

Limitations

  • Commercial use only from the paid Starter tier
  • API pricey at high volume
  • Credits are shared across every product and roll over for at most two months

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

ElevenLabs

  • Free $0 Restricted, no commercial rights.
  • Starter ~$5 Per month. Commercial rights start here.
  • API From ~$300 Per million characters at low volume.
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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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ElevenLabs

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Fish Audio

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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

ElevenLabs https://elevenlabs.io · checked against the official source on 2026-08-21

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

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