Fish Audio pricing: plans, credits and API rate
Quick answer
Fish Audio's plans are Free ($0, 8,000 credits a month), Plus ($15 a month, or $11 a month billed annually at $132 a year) and Pro ($100 a month, or $75 a month billed annually at $900 a year). Plus includes 250,000 credits, "Up to 200 minutes generation", which works out to about $0.075 a minute on monthly billing. The API is billed separately: S2.1 Pro is $15 per 1 million UTF-8 bytes. Checked November 9, 2026 against Fish Audio's plan and developer pages.
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Key takeaways
- Fish Audio's FAQ states: "Each minute of generation costs roughly 600 to 625 credits".
- Unused minutes do not roll over to the next month.
- Free plan output is for personal, non-commercial projects only.
- The API needs no subscription. Its rate is per UTF-8 byte, so text in scripts that use more than one byte per character costs more per character.
- S2.1 Pro Free is free through November 30, 2026, and its requests may be used to improve model quality.
Plans
| Plan | Monthly | Billed annually | Credits a month | Minutes a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | n/a | 8,000 | up to 7 |
| Plus | $15 | $11 a month ($132 a year) | 250,000 | up to 200 |
| Pro | $100 | $75 a month ($900 a year) | 2,000,000 | up to 1,620 |
Source: fish.audio/plan. Checked November 9, 2026.
Observation: the billing toggle says "3 months off" and the FAQ says yearly billing saves "at least 25%". Both are shown as found. On November 9, 2026 the same page also showed a temporary first-year discount; those temporary figures are left out.
Cost per minute, worked out
- Plus: about $0.075 a minute monthly ($15 / 200), about $0.055 billed annually ($11 / 200).
- Pro: about $0.062 a minute monthly ($100 / 1,620), about $0.046 billed annually ($75 / 1,620).
- Per 1 million credits: $60 on Plus monthly, $50 on Pro monthly.
These use each plan's "up to" minutes, so they are the lowest per-minute figures at full use.
API
| Model | Price |
|---|---|
| S2.1 Pro (text to speech) | $15 / 1M UTF-8 bytes |
| S2.1 Pro Free | Free for developers, through November 30, 2026 |
| Transcribe-1 (speech to text) | $0.36 / hour |
Source: fish.audio/developers. Checked November 9, 2026.
Observation: the same page's headline says "$15 per million characters". The table says "$15 / 1M UTF-8 bytes". For basic Latin text, one character is one byte, so the two match; for other scripts they don't. Both are shown as found.
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FAQ
How much is Fish Audio Plus?
$15 a month, or $11 a month billed annually ($132 a year).
How many credits is a minute on Fish Audio?
"Each minute of generation costs roughly 600 to 625 credits", according to its FAQ.
Does the Fish Audio API need a subscription?
No. The API is billed separately with pay-as-you-go credit.
Can Fish Audio voices be used commercially?
Plus lists "Commercial use allowed", and Pro includes everything in Plus. Free plan output is for personal, non-commercial projects only.
Next steps
References
- https://fish.audio/plan/
- https://fish.audio/developers/
- https://fish.audio/terms/ (operator: Hanabi AI Inc., "a corporation operating under the laws of Delaware")