# Fish Audio Drama 3 vs Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B

> Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B scores 57.8 (C) to Fish Audio Drama 3's 55.6 (C) for text-to-speech. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against Fish Audio Drama 3's 55.6 (C), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Fish Audio Drama 3 leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do text-to-speech.

- Fish Audio Drama 3: grade C, 55.6/100, rank #82 of 107 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-drama-3.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fish-audio-drama-3.json
- Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B: grade C, 57.8/100, rank #72 of 107 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-tts-0-5b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ming-3-0-tts-0-5b.json
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## Which one, for what

### Fish Audio Drama 3 (C)

Good for: Agents with an NVIDIA GPU of 32 GB or more producing directed multi-character audio, dubbing or narration, for organisations under USD 500,000 revenue or non-commercial use

Ahead on:
- Reach, 60 against 55
- Agent interface, 70 against 55
- Documentation and upkeep, 51 against 44

Watch for: Commercial use is free only below USD 500,000 annual revenue, hosted services always need a separate licence, and the grant is revocable

### Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B (C)

Good for: Offline Chinese and English narration, cloning and voice design on a small CUDA GPU, under a plain licence

Ahead on:
- Risk, 55 against 25

Watch for: No standard runtime runs it, only inclusionAI's GitHub scripts (mlx-audio and vLLM-Omni aside)


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Fish Audio Drama 3 | Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 67 | 66 | Fish Audio Drama 3 +1 |
| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 60 | 55 | Fish Audio Drama 3 +5 |
| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 25 | 55 | Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B +30 |
| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 70 | 55 | Fish Audio Drama 3 +15 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 51 | 44 | Fish Audio Drama 3 +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.6 · C** | **57.8 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Fish Audio Drama 3 | Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | Fish Audio | inclusionAI (Ant Group) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Fish Audio Community License 1.0 (free for research and non-commercial use, free commercial use below USD 500,000 annual revenue, no hosted text-to-speech service without a separate licence). The card's metadata still names fish-audio-research-license | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-19 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Fish Audio Drama 3.** A local voice cousin for directed speech, multi-character scenes, voice cloning and word-level edits in about 80 languages. It needs an NVIDIA GPU, about 29 GB for the int4 build or at least 48 GB for FP8, through SGLang-Omni or fish-speech. The main risk is the licence, revocable, capped at USD 500,000 revenue for commercial use and barring hosted services.

**Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B.** A small MIT-licensed speech cousin for offline narration, voice cloning and voice design in seven languages and two dialects. It needs about 4 GB but runs only through inclusionAI's own Python scripts on CUDA, with no streaming. The main risk is a loading path that runs the publisher's code, with no safety evaluation or security contact.

## Before you call either

### Fish Audio Drama 3

1. Install SGLang-Omni from source with `uv pip install --prerelease=allow -e ".[fishaudio]"`, then `sgl-omni serve --model-path fishaudio/drama-3-int4 --port 8000` (or fishaudio/drama-3 for FP8 on 48 GB or more)
2. POST JSON to /v1/audio/speech with `input`, optional `references` (audio_path and its transcript) and `previous_takes`; set `response_format` and `stream` for the output
3. Start each line with `<|speaker:N|>` (N from 0 to 15) for several voices, and separate lines with `<|audio_separator|>`
4. Direct with point tags like `[sighs]`, scoped tags like `<whisper>...</whisper>`, a bracketed style prefix, or `Direction:` and `Line:` for a director's note
5. The int4 build needs compute capability 8.0 or newer; only the triton attention backend is accepted
6. Keep each reference clip under 60 seconds and the prompt under 8,192 rows, about 21.5 rows per second of reference audio
7. Check the licence before commercial use or exposing it to other users, and only clone voices with consent
8. Treat text from untrusted sources as a script that can carry directions and speaker tags

### Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B

1. Clone github.com/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-tts and `pip install -r requirements.txt` (torch 2.6.0, transformers 4.46.3), since the Hugging Face repository alone won't load
2. Start with `python infer.py --model_path inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B --task IP --text "The garden will remain open until sunset." --ip US_James --use_zero_spk_emb --no_text_normalization --output output/tts.wav`
3. Pass `--no_text_normalization` unless pynini 2.1.6 is installed, since text normalisation imports it
4. Pick one task per call and pass only that task's controls, since controls from another task are rejected
5. Run `python tools/preflight.py --model_path <dir>` to check the checkpoint before the first call
6. inclusionAI tested only NVIDIA H800 and H20 with CUDA 12.4, and no doc covers PyTorch on ROCm, so the AMD reference machine is untested
7. On Apple silicon, mlx-audio 0.6.1 or later loads mlx-community's conversion, which isn't inclusionAI's
8. Clone only voices you have consent for and label the audio as synthetic, as the card asks

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Fish Audio Drama 3 or Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B?

Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against Fish Audio Drama 3's 55.6 (C), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Fish Audio Drama 3 leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.


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