Fish Audio sells monthly credits for its web app and a separate pay-as-you-go API. This page lists each plan from Fish Audio's plan page, what the credits buy in minutes, what the API costs, and where Fish Audio's own figures disagree. It doesn't rate how the voices sound.
Which Fish Audio plan do you need?
First, don't treat the headline minutes as a measured output guarantee. Fish Audio's FAQ and plan cards give different credit-to-minute conversions. We use the cards' lower allowance. Our free-plan run was consistent with the cards, but it was one script, not a benchmark of paid plans. See the conversion evidence.
- Trying voices for personal use: Free includes 8,000 credits a month, with no commercial use. Our run hit a 500-character limit per generation. Try your script before choosing a paid workflow.
- Needing the web app for commercial speech: Plus starts at $15/mo for ~200 min. Don't move to Pro just for a lower price per included minute if Plus covers your workload and features.
- Needing more monthly generation: compare Plus with Pro at $100/mo for ~1,620 min. Use the workload table below, leaving room for discarded takes.
- Considering Max for volume: ask Fish Audio to clarify the credits-to-minutes gap before paying $999/mo. We cannot explain the gap from the official pages and do not recommend it on a minute-cost claim alone.
- Comfortable building an API workflow: compare the separate pay-as-you-go API below. Do not assume a web subscription includes API usage or that its commercial terms automatically cover the API.
Before publishing with a library voice, confirm the license. Fish Audio's pricing FAQ describes commercial use as paid subscribers using verified voices they own; a paid subscription alone does not settle permission for someone else's voice.
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Fish Audio plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly | Credits a month | Speech | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 8,000 credits a month | ~7 min | n/a |
| Plus | $15/mo | 250,000 credits a month | ~200 min | $0.075 |
| Pro | $100/mo | 2,000,000 credits a month | ~1,620 min | $0.062 |
| Max | $999/mo | 25,000,000 credits a month | ~6,250 min | $0.16 |
"Per minute" is the monthly price divided by the minutes Fish Audio states, assuming you use the full allowance. It is not a measured cost per minute of finished narration. Unused credits and discarded takes can raise your effective cost. Enterprise is priced on request and billed annually.
What changes between plans, from the plan page:
- Free: 500 characters per generation, 3 public voice slots, standard speed. Enhanced voice cloning and commercial use are crossed out.
- Plus: 15,000 characters per generation, 10 private voice slots, Voice Design, enhanced voice cloning with 1 professional voice slot, and commercial use.
- Pro: 30,000 characters per generation, 3 team seats, unlimited voice slots and 5 professional voice slots.
- Max: 10 team seats and 15 professional voice slots.
Credits, characters and minutes
Fish Audio's figures don't agree on how many credits a minute takes:
- Its FAQ says a minute costs "roughly 600 to 625 credits."
- Its plan cards say 8,000 credits a month is ~7 min and 250,000 credits a month is ~200 min, which is about 1,100 to 1,250 credits a minute.
- When we used the free plan on October 9, 2026, 998 characters used 998 credits and produced 52 sec of speech. That's about 1,149 characters a minute, in line with the plan cards, not the FAQ.
Max is the odd one out. It lists 25,000,000 credits a month, more than 12 times Pro's credits, but ~6,250 min, under four times Pro's minutes. By the stated minutes, Max costs more per minute than Pro; by credits, it costs less. Fish Audio's pages don't explain the gap, so ask before buying Max for volume.
Credits reset each month and unused minutes don't roll over.
Which plan covers your minutes
The cheapest monthly web subscription with commercial rights, by Fish Audio's stated minutes. This uses generated speech, not finished project length; leave room for retakes. API charges, promotions and annual billing are not included:
| Minutes a month | Plan |
|---|---|
| 30 | $15/mo (Plus) |
| 60 | $15/mo (Plus) |
| 300 | $100/mo (Pro) |
| 1,000 | $100/mo (Pro) |
Compare the same minutes across other tools in our pricing calculator, or see ElevenLabs vs Fish Audio for a two-tool comparison.
Fish Audio API pricing
The API is billed separately, pay-as-you-go, with "no subscription fees or monthly minimums":
- Text to speech on the current models costs $15 per million UTF-8 bytes of input text. Fish Audio says that's about 180,000 English words, or about 12 hours of speech.
- Speech to text costs $0.36 per audio hour.
- The older S1 model is being retired on December 31, 2026; requests for it will then be billed as the newer model at the same price.
If you only need audio files from a script and can call an API, compare its usage bill with the web subscription rather than buying a larger plan automatically. UTF-8 bytes are not the same as characters across languages, so the quoted English duration is not a universal conversion. Include any repeated requests in your budget. The plans pay for the web app, voice slots and cloning; check the API's own terms before commercial use.
Free plan, commercial use and refunds
- Free plan: 8,000 credits a month with no credit card. Our free-plan run, including the 500-character limit per generation, is on the free plan test page.
- Commercial use: Fish Audio's terms license paid users for commercial use and limit free users to personal, non-commercial use. Its plan FAQ adds that paid subscribers "can use verified voices (that you own) for commercial purposes." If you plan to use a public library voice commercially, confirm it with Fish Audio. Our license checker compares terms across tools.
- Annual billing is cheaper, but Fish Audio's figures differ: the billing switch says "3 months off," while its FAQ says yearly saves 33%. A limited-time first-year discount was running when we checked, so the regular annual price wasn't shown.
- Refunds: the Pro plan lists a 7-day money-back guarantee. Otherwise, the terms say fees already paid aren't refunded, and a canceled plan runs to the end of its term.
Fish Audio also offers first-month discounts from time to time; those change often, so this page lists regular prices.
We re-check Fish Audio every month, and the date at the top of this page tells you when we last did.