# Fish Audio TTS API vs Inworld Realtime TTS-2 (slim)

> Fish Audio TTS scores 60.8 (C) to Inworld Realtime TTS-2's 58.3 (C) for text-to-speech. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Fish Audio TTS API scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Inworld Realtime TTS-2's 58.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Inworld Realtime TTS-2 leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do text-to-speech.

- Fish Audio TTS API: C 60.8, rank #578 of 1243 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-tts.min.md
- Inworld Realtime TTS-2: C 58.3, rank #687 of 1243 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-tts.min.md
- Fish Audio TTS API, good for Voice agents that stream LLM text into speech at a low per-byte price, multilingual output from one model, directed performances with Drama 3, and teams moving from OpenAI or ElevenLabs request shapes. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 62; Schema & documentation, 84 against 60.
- Inworld Realtime TTS-2, good for Agents that generate replies or stories at runtime and want delivery chosen from context without writing tags, and for per-message or pre-generated audio. Ahead on Security & auth, 61 against 35; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Fish Audio TTS API | Inworld Realtime TTS-2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 62 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 60 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 69 | 68 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Fish Audio TTS API | Inworld Realtime TTS-2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Fish Audio | Inworld AI |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fish.audio` | `https://api.inworld.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, websocket |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for text-to-speech | not published | $12.50 per 1M characters |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (Python SDK), MIT (JavaScript SDK) | Proprietary service under Inworld's Terms of Service. The Node.js SDK `@inworld/tts` and the CLI `@inworld/cli` are MIT on npm |
| Tools exposed | 47 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-28 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-08-18 | 2025-06-11 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-28 | 2026-01-18 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 5.2k npm/wk, 34k PyPI/wk | 3.6k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (4) | none |