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Fish Audio review
Expressive text to speech with emotion tags, a library of 2,000,000+ voices and voice cloning, aimed at narration, characters and video.
By the HearSmart research desk · Updated November 9, 2026
- Performance (40%)
- 8.8
- Ease of use (25%)
- 8.4
- Value (35%)
- 9.0
Fish Audio gives creators a lot of narration for the money. Plus costs $11 a month billed yearly, or $15 monthly, and includes 250,000 credits, up to 200 minutes of generation, 15,000 characters per generation, 10 private voice slots, Voice Design and one professional voice slot, with commercial use allowed. Its scripts accept tags for emotions and sounds, from whispering and sighing to laughing and long pauses, which helps character dialogue in fiction and games. Fish Audio pitches its narration as publish-ready for audiobooks and says it meets ACX and Audible specs. The library lists more than 2,000,000 voices, many of them shared by users, so you may need to audition a few before you find a consistent narrator. The free tier is useful for testing, but its 500-character limit per generation rules out real projects. Pro, at $75 a month billed yearly, adds 2,000,000 credits and 3 team seats.
Who it is for
Audiobook narrators and character voice work on a tight budget.
Price
Free tier with 8,000 credits a month; Plus $11 a month billed yearly ($132) or $15 monthly; Pro $75 a month billed yearly.
$ 11 $ 15 mo $132 billed annually
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.
Key features
- Emotion and sound tags such as whispering, sighing and pauses in the script
- Library of 2,000,000+ voices
- Voice cloning, Voice Design and a professional voice slot on Plus
- Up to 15,000 characters per generation on Plus
- Avatar lip-sync for talking videos
Strengths and weaknesses
- Strength: Up to 200 minutes of generation a month on Plus for $11 billed yearly
- Strength: Fine emotional control with simple text tags
- Strength: Fish Audio says its narration meets ACX and Audible specs
- Weakness: The free tier caps each generation at 500 characters
- Weakness: A huge community voice library means quality varies between voices
- Weakness: Monthly billing on Plus costs $15 instead of $11
Key facts
- Free tier: 8,000 credits a month, up to 7 minutes of generation
- Plus: 250,000 credits, up to 200 minutes, 10 private voice slots
- Pro: 2,000,000 credits, up to 1,620 minutes, 3 team seats
- Characters per generation: 500 free, 15,000 Plus, 30,000 Pro
- Voice library: 2,000,000+ voices
Where it ranks
Fish Audio is No. 2 in our Best AI Voice Generators verdict.
Alternatives we scored
- ElevenLabs9.2
- WellSaid8.4
- Murf AI8.3
- Descript8.2
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