Speakvora vs Fish Audio
Fish Audio bills by UTF-8 bytes, which equals characters for plain English but costs more for other scripts. Speakvora bills plain characters.
What the same job costs
Text to speech billed per character, at list price. Fish Audio charges $15.00 to $15.00 per million characters; Speakvora catalog voices are $0.70, which is 95% to 95% less for the same number of characters. Different models, so this compares cost, not voice quality.
| Voice | 1M characters | 10M a month | 100M a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish Audio s2.1-pro text to speech | $15.00 | $150 | $1,500 |
| Speakvora catalog voices | $0.70 | $7.00 | $70.00 |
| Speakvora your own voice | $6.00 | $60.00 | $600 |
Source: Fish Audio official pricing, checked 2026-10-08. Prices change; confirm on the source. Speech to text, agents and plans are priced in other units, explained below.
Short answer. Pick Fish Audio if its expressive s2 models are what you want. Pick Speakvora if you need the lowest per-character price, a ready-made phrase library, or a simple own-voice API.
The price, read carefully
Fish Audio's page lists s2.1-pro at $15 per million UTF-8 bytes. For English that is about $15 per million characters; for scripts such as Chinese, Japanese or Hindi each character takes several bytes, so the cost per character rises. Speakvora's catalog voices are $0.70 per million characters and your own voice is $6.
Other listed Fish Audio prices: voice design $0.01 per request and speech to text $0.36 per hour (about $0.006 per minute against Speakvora's $0.0015). The page we read does not list a separate price for voice cloning.
Fish Audio official pricing (as read)
Source: https://docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/models-pricing/pricing-and-rate-limits · checked 2026-10-08. Prices change; confirm on the source.
| Product / model | Price | Native unit | Notes and restrictions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text to speech, s2.1-pro | $15 | per 1M UTF-8 bytes | English is about one byte per character; other scripts use more bytes per character |
| Voice design | $0.01 | per request | |
| Speech to text | $0.36 | per hour | |
| Voice cloning | No separate price listed on the page we read | - | Reference audio can be sent inline or saved as a voice model |
Speakvora list prices (early access)
| Product | List price | Native unit | Free allowance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalog voices (Kokoro) | $0.70 | per 1M characters | 100,000 characters |
| Your own voice | $6 | per 1M characters | same pool |
| Speech to text | $0.0015 | per minute, billed per second | 60 minutes |
| Voice agents (beta) | $10 | per 1,000 turns | 200 turns |
| Industry packs | Coming | one time, per pack | priced when published |
Where Fish Audio is stronger
- The s2 model family, including multi-speaker dialogue
- Cloning from inline reference audio or saved voice models
- Several output formats and prosody controls
Where Speakvora is stronger
- A lower list price per character
- A checked phrase library and industry packs
- No subscription; 100,000 free characters, once per account
Three situations, three different answers
A product speaking 5 million English characters a month
At list prices that is about $75 on Fish Audio s2.1-pro and $3.50 on Speakvora catalog voices. Models differ, so this compares cost only.
Hindi or Japanese text
Fish Audio bills bytes, and these scripts use several bytes per character, so the same text costs more than the English figure. Speakvora bills characters.
A kiosk that plays 80 fixed prompts
Play stored audio (library clips or a pack) instead of generating each time.
What we did not find at Fish Audio
- Curated industry phrase packs
- Downloadable ready-generated industry audio
- A listed price for custom-voice generation separate from the base rate
"Not found" means we did not see it in the official material reviewed. It is not a claim that the provider lacks it.
What we are not claiming
We have not benchmarked audio quality, accuracy or uptime against Fish Audio. Speakvora has no SLA and is in early access with billing is live. Our own timings are on the speed page, with the method.
Questions people ask
Is Speakvora cheaper than Fish Audio?
Per character at list price, yes: $0.70 versus about $15 per million for English, and $6 versus $15 for your own voice. We have not compared quality or latency.
Why does the byte unit matter?
Fish Audio's price is per UTF-8 byte. English is about one byte per character, but many other scripts use two to four.
Switching? See the Fish Audio alternative guide with the code change. Prices side by side: text to speech · speech to text.