Fish Audio vs Rime Arcana

In short

• Both: Text to speech, Voice cloning, Many languages, API
• Only Fish Audio states: Speech to text, Sound effects, Dubbing, Commercial use

Fish Audio

Fish Audio turns text into expressive speech, with voice cloning, voice design, speech-to-text, audio tools, and developer APIs.

Plans

Free Tier

Free

• 8,000 credits monthly
• Up to 7 minutes generation
• Up to 500 characters per generation
• 3 public voice slots
• Standard generation speed
• Enhanced voice cloning

Plus

• $5.5 mo
• $66 billed annually
• 15 mo

• 250,000 credits monthly
• Up to 200 minutes generation
• Up to 15,000 characters per generation
• Unlimited public + 10 private voice slots
• Priority generation on our latest models
• Access to Voice Design

Pro

• $37.5 mo
• $450 billed annually

• 2,000,000 credits monthly
• Up to 1,620 minutes generation
• 3 team seats included
• Up to 30,000 characters per generation
• Unlimited voice slots
• 5 professional voice slots

Max

• $749 mo
• $8988 billed annually

• 25,000,000 credits monthly
• Up to 6,250 minutes generation
• 10 team seats included
• 15 professional voice slots
• And everything in Pro

Enterprise

Price on request

• Pay as you go with organization-level controls
• Zero Data Retention
• On-Premise Deployment
• SOC2 Compliance
• Custom SSO (Coming soon)

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Text to speech — “Text to Speech with the most natural and human sounding AI voice generator” source
• Voice cloning — “Instant voice cloning from 10 seconds of audio, 60+ emotion tags, sub-300ms streaming latency, and 500,000+ community voices.” source
• Speech to text — “Speech to Text” source
• Sound effects — “Sound Effects” source
• Dubbing — “Audio Translation” source
• Many languages — “Speak 30+ languages with any voice” source
• Commercial use — “Premium subscribers can use verified voices (that you own) for commercial purposes.” source
• API — “Yes! Premium subscribers get access to our flexible pay-as-you-go API.” source

Latest updates

• 2026-03-10 Fish Audio S2 (Fish Audio S2)

  Launched the S2 text-to-speech model with inline emotion cues, multi-speaker dialogue, 80+ languages, and API model ID s2-pro.

• 2025-11-10 Fish Audio S1 (Fish Audio S1)

  Rebranded Fish Speech to Fish Audio and introduced S1 and S1-mini TTS models with multilingual support and emotional expressions.

• 2025-09-14 v1.5.1 (v1.5.1)

  Added ONNX export and Arabic and Hebrew text processing; fixed PyTorch security settings and Apple Silicon compatibility.

Rime Arcana

Rime Arcana is a text-to-speech model for real-time voice apps, generating expressive multilingual speech through Rime’s API.

Plans

Starter

• starting at $0.03 / 1K characters
• $0.05 / 1K characters

• ~800 minutes free (about 800k characters)
• 20 concurrent TTS generations
• Public Slack support

Enterprise

Price on request

• Unlimited concurrent TTS generations
• Unlimited custom TTS voice clones
• SLAs + dedicated support
• Cloud, on-prem, or VPC
• BAA (HIPAA) and SOC 2 reports

Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Text to speech — “Arcana is a multimodal, autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) model that generates discrete audio tokens from text inputs.” source
• Voice cloning — “Unlimited custom TTS voice clones” source
• Many languages — “Arcana v3's TTS AI supports 10 languages out of the box, with more coming soon.” source
• API — “It’s production-ready and API-accessible from day one.” source

Security

• SOC 2 Type II — “As of May 2025, we are SOC 2 Type 2 compliant .” source
• SOC 2 — “As of May 2025, we are SOC 2 Type 2 compliant .” source
• HIPAA — “As of February 2024, we are HIPAA compliant .” source
• Not trained on your data — “We never use customer text or audio to train our models” source

Latest updates

• 2025-05-12 Arcana is Now Unlimited

  Removal of character limits enables longer speech passages; Arcana accommodates WAV, PCM, and MULAW, adjustable sampling rates, and text normalization.