ElevenLabs vs Fish Audio: which AI voice tool for game dialogue?
Both turn text into voice lines and clone voices, through a web app or an API. ElevenLabs bundles voice, sound effects and music under one account; Fish Audio centres on training a clone of a voice you own and also publishes open weights. Neither free plan lets you ship what you make: both need a paid plan for commercial use.
Full reviews: ElevenLabs · Fish Audio
| ElevenLabs | Fish Audio | |
|---|---|---|
| Can you ship it? | Paid plan needed Starter plan or higher includes the commercial license; Free has none. Source | Paid plan needed Terms allow commercial use on paid plans only; Free output is personal use Source |
| Best for | Voice lines, sound effects and music in one place | Training your own voice clone for game dialogue |
| Confirmed features | Text to speech (voice lines) · Clone a voice · Design a new voice from a description · Change a recorded voice (speech to speech) · Many languages · Sound effects from text · Music generation · Exports WAV · API for developers | Text to speech (voice lines) · Clone a voice · Design a new voice from a description · Many languages · Exports WAV · API for developers · Runs locally (open weights) |
| Free option | Free plan with 10,000 credits a month, but no commercial license: a shipped game needs Starter or higher. Source | Free plan with monthly free generations, for personal, non-commercial projects only; commercial use needs a paid plan. Source |
| Price | Free (no commercial use). Starter from $6/mo | Free (8,000 credits/mo). Plus $15/mo ($11/mo billed yearly). Pro $100/mo ($75/mo yearly). Max $999/mo. API pay as you go ($15 per million bytes of text) |
| Works with | Web, API | Web, API (Python and JavaScript SDKs) |
| Maker | ElevenLabs | Hanabi AI |
| Last checked | Oct 19, 2026 (source) | Oct 20, 2026 (source) |
| Try it | Visit ElevenLabs Affiliate link | Visit Fish Audio |
Pick ElevenLabs if…
You want voice lines, sound effects and music from one account, with a commercial license from the cheapest paid plan.
Pick Fish Audio if…
You want to train a professional clone of a voice you own and reuse it across projects, and you accept terms that let Fish Audio train on your content.
Our verdicts
ElevenLabs
Text to speech, voice design, sound effects and music under one account. The free plan has no commercial license, so a shipped game needs at least Starter.
Fish Audio
A text-to-speech service where paid plans let you train a professional clone of a voice you own (about 10 minutes of audio) and reuse it across projects, through the web app or a pay-as-you-go API. The plan page's Free card lists commercial use, but the FAQ and terms say Free output is for personal, non-commercial projects, so budget for Plus. The terms let Fish Audio train on your content with no opt-out below Enterprise. Open weights also exist under a community license that allows commercial use only under $500K annual revenue.
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