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@shiri_shh tells developers paying ElevenLabs $100 per million characters to…

2026-07-28 · 17:30 UTC ·@shiri_shh ·1 min read

Brief

Shiri (@shiri_shh) urges developers to stop paying ElevenLabs $100 per million characters, pointing to Fish Audio as a cheaper, open-source, self-hostable alternative. Fish Audio publicly launched S2.1 Pro with a $52M Seed (2026-07-28), claiming 5s voice cloning, 2x speed vs. Cartesia, 1/6th ElevenLabs' cost, enterprise guarantees and promos.

Why it matters

@shiri_shh tells developers paying ElevenLabs $100 per million characters to stop, citing Fish Audio as ~70% cheaper and claiming Fish Audio is open-source, self-hostable, supports 83+ languages, and can clone a voice from 15 seconds of audio (author's claim).

Key details

  • Fish Audio announced S2.1 Pro (public launch) and a $52M Seed on 2026-07-28, claims cloning from 5 seconds, 2x faster than Cartesia and 1/6th the cost of ElevenLabs, lists customers (HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, OpenArt), offers a business guarantee (cut costs by 50% or 1 year free) and a 1-month free promo for social engagement.
Source evidence

If you're a dev paying ElevenLabs $100 per million characters, stop.

Fish Audio does it ~70% cheaper.

open source, self-hostable, 83+ languages, voice cloning from 15 sec of audio.

the entire voice AI pricing model is about to look ridiculous.

Fish Audio (@FishAudio)

Today we’ve raised $52M Seed and we are announcing the public launch of S2.1 Pro.

>It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio
>2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs
>most expressive model with word level control over emotion, intonation, pacing etc

We support frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt all run our model in production.

If you're a business and we can't cut your voice AI costs by 50%, we'll give you 1 year of Fish Audio for free.
Book a demo: s.fish.audio/tmapke

To celebrate our first birthday, we'll give you 1 month of S2.1 Pro for free. Like, retweet, and comment “Fish” to get it.

Video

— https://nitter.net/FishAudio/status/2082152596739862853#m