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AI Voice & Speech Comparison

Fish Audio vs. Rev

At a glance

At a glance

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

Rev

Best for

Best for teams who need a transcript accurate enough to be relied on in court or in the record, with a human pass available on top of the machine one.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

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Full Comparison

Criterion Fish Audio Rev
Starting price lower value 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 tier, then from $25.49 / seat / month The $25.49 Essentials rate is billed annually at $305.90 a year; paid monthly it is $29.99. Pro is $47.99 billed annually or $59.99 monthly. Human services are bought separately by the minute or page and are pooled across seats at account level. The Rev AI developer platform is billed per hour of audio instead, from $0.10 an hour on Reverb Turbo.
Free trial Free tier with 8,000 credits per month (about 7 minutes) Free plan with 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, plus free Rev AI credits worth 5 hours of Reverb transcription
Output Text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice cloning (S2.1 Pro model) Transcripts, captions, subtitles and case documents
API Yes, REST API and SDKs Yes, Rev AI for asynchronous and streaming speech-to-text, plus a human transcription API
Hosting Not stated Cloud or on-premises for the Rev AI platform
Voice cloning Yes, from about 15 seconds of audio No, Rev works only on incoming speech and does not synthesise or clone voices
Real-time use Yes, real-time with low latency Yes, a streaming speech-to-text API for live audio alongside asynchronous transcription of recorded files; human services are turnaround-based rather than real-time
Languages 30+ languages 57+ languages for speech-to-text through Rev AI, 37+ on the Pro subscription and English only on the free plan; human captions cover English and Spanish, and human subtitles 17 languages
Speech-to-speech and dubbing Yes, a Voice Changer transforms existing audio into a different voice No dubbing or synthesised speech. Translation is text-only, at $0.002 to $0.025 per minute through the API depending on standard or premium, plus human subtitles at $6.49 to $15.99 a minute
Editing and controls Emotion tags and effects such as angry, sad, excited, whispering, laughing and pauses Transcript editor with clipping, multi-file evidence analysis with citations, image analysis, a document editor exporting to Word and PDF, AI templates for chronologies and affidavits, and API-side custom vocabulary, forced alignment with word-level timestamps, topic extraction and sentiment analysis
Consent and trust 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 SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI compliant with data encrypted at rest and in transit, a stated 99.99% uptime, and on-premises deployment for the API; the Unlimited subscription adds HIPAA and CJIS compliance, SSO and a dedicated specialist
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
Support Email helpdesk, Community forum Not stated
Onboarding Documentation and knowledge base Documentation and knowledge base
Company size Freelancers, Small and mid-sized more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations Not stated Clio

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price Fish Audio Free tier; Plus from $15 / month Rev Free tier, then from $25.49 / seat / month
  • Free trial Fish Audio Free tier with 8,000 credits per month (about 7 minutes) Rev Free plan with 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, plus free Rev AI credits worth 5 hours of Reverb transcription
  • Deployment Fish Audio Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Rev Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
  • Company size Fish Audio Freelancers, Small and mid-sized Rev Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
  • Output Fish Audio Text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice cloning (S2.1 Pro model) Rev Transcripts, captions, subtitles and case documents

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

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

Rev

Strengths

  • Human transcription at a stated 99%+ accuracy alongside the machine tier
  • Developer API priced per hour of audio, from $0.10 on Reverb Turbo
  • Runs on-premises as well as in the cloud on the API side
  • Free credits worth 5 hours of transcription, with no card required

Limitations

  • Speech-to-text only, no text-to-speech, dubbing or voice cloning
  • The subscription is built around legal and investigative work, which is dead weight for other uses
  • The free plan covers 45 minutes a month and English only
  • Human services are charged on top of the subscription rather than included

Plans

Pricing

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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Rev

  • Free $0 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, English only, up to 5 files analysed at once, document editor and mobile app.
  • Essentials $25.49 Per seat per month billed annually at $305.90, or $29.99 billed monthly. Up to 3 seats, 5,000 AI minutes per seat per month in English and Spanish, up to 10 files analysed and 10% off human services.
  • Pro $47.99 Per seat per month billed annually at $575.88, or $59.99 billed monthly. Up to 5 seats, 10,000 AI minutes per seat per month across 37+ languages, up to 50 files analysed, image analysis, Clio integration and 15% off human services.
  • Unlimited Not stated Custom pricing. Unlimited seats and AI minutes, up to 500 files analysed, HIPAA and CJIS compliance, SSO and a dedicated specialist.
  • Rev AI pay-as-you-go $0.10 Per hour of audio on Reverb Turbo; Reverb is $0.20 an hour and foreign-language transcription $0.30 an hour across 56+ languages. Whisper Fusion and Large are $0.005 a minute. Human transcription through the API is $1.99 a minute. Insights are priced separately: language identification and forced alignment $0.003 a minute, topic extraction and sentiment analysis $0.0008 per 10 words, translation $0.002 to $0.025 a minute. Free credits equivalent to 5 hours of Reverb transcription to start.
  • Human services From $1.99 Per minute for human transcription and for human captions, with up to 15% off on a subscription. Legal rough drafts are $2.25 a page and legal premium transcripts $2.50 a page. Global subtitles run $6.49 to $15.99 a minute depending on the language, across 17 languages.
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What users say

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Fish Audio

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Rev

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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

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

Rev https://www.rev.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-04

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