{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "fish-audio-voice-cloning", "name": "Fish Audio Voice Cloning API", "vendor": "Fish Audio", "vendorUrl": "https://fish.audio", "kind": "model", "category": "voice-cloning", "summary": "Fish Audio's API creates reusable voice clones from audio samples and generates candidate voices from text prompts.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-voice-cloning", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-voice-cloning.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-voice-cloning.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fish-audio-voice-cloning.json", "repo": "https://github.com/fishaudio/fish-audio-python", "license": "Apache-2.0 (Python SDK)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.fish.audio", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "fish-audio-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "fish-audio" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "`Authorization: Bearer` API key. Voice design also needs a `model: voice-design-1` header.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Prepaid pay as you go with no subscription. No published fee for creating a voice model. Speech from a clone costs $15 per million UTF-8 bytes on `s2.1-pro`, or $0 on `s2.1-pro-free` under fair use. Voice design is $0.01 per successful request whatever the number of candidates. Concurrency rises with total prepaid spend. Separate app plans (Plus $11, Pro $75 a month) set voice slots in the web app (https://docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/models-pricing/pricing-and-rate-limits).", "priceSummary": "$0.01 / call", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or machine payment in the docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 218, "npmWeekly": 6392, "pypiWeekly": 37344, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/core-features/creating-models", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.fish.audio/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.fish.audio/api-reference/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "voice.clone", "voice.design", "speech.tts" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "python", "typescript", "openapi", "llms-txt", "open-weights", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-03-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 51.3, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 671, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 79, "security": 28, "transparency": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Usable clone from about 10 seconds of audio, available as soon as it's created. No consent or speaker verification in the API.", "bestFor": "Cheap, quick clones of your own voice and for prompt-designed voices at volume.", "strengths": [ "Usable clone from about 10 seconds of audio, available as soon as it's created", "Inline cloning per request, with no model to store", "Voice design at $0.01 per successful request, failed requests not billed", "One 10 minute incident on the status page in the last 90 days", "Open-weights S2-Pro for self-hosting under a research licence" ], "weaknesses": [ "No consent or speaker verification in the API", "Terms take a perpetual, irrevocable licence to uploads, including for training, with no opt-out", "Changelog stops at March 2026, s2.1-pro and voice design aren't in it", "No 429 or retry guidance despite concurrency caps of 5 to 50", "No security.txt, SOC 2 or subprocessor list found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send 2 or 3 clean single-speaker clips with matching `texts`, or the API runs ASR on them", "Pass the model `_id` as `reference_id` in TTS. Check `state` before relying on it", "For one-off voices send `references` inline to `/v1/tts` instead of creating a model", "Send the `model: voice-design-1` header on voice design calls", "Keep concurrency at 5 until prepaid spend passes $100, there's no documented retry guidance" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 51.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 79, "security": 28, "transparency": 40 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.fish.audio/model -H \"Authorization: Bearer $FISH_API_KEY\" \\\n -F type=tts -F train_mode=fast -F title=\"Support voice\" -F voices=@sample.wav" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.clone", "tool": "https://letme.dev/fish-audio-voice-cloning" }, "sameCompany": [ "fish-audio-tts" ], "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Speech from a clone, s2.1-pro", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 15, "note": "per million UTF-8 bytes, not characters" }, { "item": "Voice design, voice-design-1", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "per successful request, up to 4 candidates" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hanabi AI Inc.", "domain": "fish.audio", "domainRegistered": "2023-12-11", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://fish.audio/terms/", "privacy": "https://fish.audio/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.fish.audio", "changelog": "https://docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/getting-started/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-voice-cloning.json", "live": { "slug": "fish-audio-voice-cloning", "probe": { "target": "https://api.fish.audio", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:00:23.951319684Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 119, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 154, "p95ms24h": 238, "samples24h": 260, "samples30d": 2303, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 117, "ok": 117 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.fish.audio", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:57:55.452673417Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "fishaudio/fish-audio-python", "version": "fish-audio-sdk-v1.3.0", "released": "2026-03-10", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:12:07.105987332Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "fish-audio", "version": "0.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:12:03.633235464Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "fish-audio-sdk", "version": "1.3.0", "released": "2026-03-10", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:12:03.447178837Z" } ], "githubStars": 223, "npmWeekly": 5213, "pypiWeekly": 34220, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://fish.audio/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:08.373686524Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.fish.audio/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:26.775785878Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "fish.audio", "registered": "2023-12-11", "source": "https://rdap.centralnic.com/audio/domain/fish.audio", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:37.042191177Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/getting-started/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:45.828187127Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:45.828187127Z", "fingerprint": "13e70b07be76" }, { "url": "https://docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/models-pricing/deprecations", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:48.096655227Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:48.096655227Z", "fingerprint": "63adfc31a612" }, { "url": "https://docs.fish.audio/developer-guide/models-pricing/pricing-and-rate-limits", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:50.041790519Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:50.041790519Z", "fingerprint": "72beddda15dd" }, { "url": "https://fish.audio/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:25.505679803Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "14953e34f56f" }, { "url": "https://fish.audio/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:27.718731591Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "659fc3527722" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:00:23.951319684Z" } }, "answer": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against Fish Audio Voice Cloning API's 51.3 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Fish Audio Voice Cloning API leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "minimax-voice-cloning", "name": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design", "vendor": "MiniMax", "vendorUrl": "https://www.minimax.io", "kind": "model", "category": "voice-cloning", "summary": "MiniMax's API clones a voice from a 10 second to 5 minute audio sample and designs voices from a text description. The resulting voice IDs work with its speech-2.8 text-to-speech models.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.json", "repo": "https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-MCP", "license": "Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. The two official MCP servers are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.minimax.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "minimax-mcp" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "minimax-mcp-js" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key created in the platform console under Account, API Keys. No scopes were found in the docs. Voice cloning also needs individual or enterprise verification of the account, and an unverified account gets error 2038. Mainland China accounts use `https://api.minimaxi.com`.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go from a prepaid balance. Rapid voice cloning $1.50 a voice and voice design $3 a voice, each charged when the voice is first used for synthesis. Speech from the voice is $100 per million characters on speech-2.8-hd and $60 on speech-2.8-turbo. Previews are billed per character. Audio subscriptions from $5 a month include 10 to 800 voice slots. No free allowance for cloning is published (https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$1.50 / tx", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the pricing pages or the voice OpenAPI files. Prepaid balance top-up (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 377, "pypiWeekly": 1532, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/speech-voice-clone", "llmsTxt": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/speech/voice-cloning/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "voice.clone", "voice.design", "speech.tts" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "python", "typescript", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 640, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 20, "reliability": 70, "schema": 78, "security": 39, "transparency": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Typed OpenAPI files, published prices of $1.50 a cloned voice and $3 a designed voice, and optional transcript and watermark checks. Cloning needs individual or enterprise account verification, the terms and privacy policy could not be read without a browser, and no statement on training with uploaded voice audio was found in the docs.", "bestFor": "Teams already using MiniMax speech models that want quick clones or prompt-designed voices at a flat fee per voice across 40 languages.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 files for clone, upload, design, list and delete, with llms.txt and Markdown copies of every docs page", "A cloned voice costs $1.50 and a designed voice $3, charged on first synthesis and not at creation", "Rate limits are published, 60 requests a minute for cloning and 20 for voice design", "Optional `text_validation` rejects a sample whose speech does not match an expected transcript, and `aigc_watermark` adds a watermark tone to the preview", "`POST /v1/delete_voice` removes a cloned or designed voice, and unused voices are deleted after 7 days" ], "weaknesses": [ "The terms of service and privacy policy render only in a browser, so voice ownership, training use and retention terms were not read", "No field records the speaker's consent. The documented gate is individual or enterprise verification of the account", "The voice design reference prices preview audio at $30 per million characters and the pricing page at $60", "The API release notes stop at 28 October 2025 and omit `text_validation` and `aigc_watermark`", "No security.txt, bug bounty or certification found, and no SLA in the docs" ], "agentNotes": [ "Upload the sample to `POST /v1/files/upload` with `purpose=voice_clone`, then pass the integer `file_id` and a new `voice_id` of 8 to 256 characters to `POST /v1/voice_clone`", "Synthesise once with T2A within 7 days or the voice is deleted. A preview inside the clone call does not count", "Read `base_resp.status_code` on every response. Errors such as 2038 (no cloning permission) and 2039 (duplicate `voice_id`) arrive in the body", "Voice design returns `trial_audio` as hex in the JSON body. Write it to a file and keep it out of the model context", "Send `voice_type` to `POST /v1/get_voice`, because `all` also returns the 300+ system voices" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 20, "reliability": 70, "schema": 78, "security": 39, "transparency": 25 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --location 'https://api.minimax.io/v1/voice_clone' \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $MINIMAX_API_KEY\" \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"file_id\": 123456789, \"voice_id\": \"MiniMax001\"}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "MiniMax": { "args": [ "minimax-mcp", "-y" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "MINIMAX_API_HOST": "https://api.minimax.io", "MINIMAX_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.clone", "tool": "https://letme.dev/minimax-voice-cloning" }, "sameCompany": [ "minimax-video" ], "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Rapid voice clone", "unit": "tx", "usd": 1.5, "note": "per voice, charged on first synthesis" }, { "item": "Voice design", "unit": "tx", "usd": 3, "note": "per voice, charged on first synthesis" }, { "item": "Speech from a clone, speech-2.8-hd", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 100 }, { "item": "Speech from a clone, speech-2.8-turbo", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 60 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nanonoble Pte. Ltd.", "domain": "minimax.io", "domainRegistered": "2021-03-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://platform.minimax.io/protocol/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.minimax.io", "changelog": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/apis", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The legal entity is carried from the 30 September 2026 check recorded on our MiniMax Video API listing. The terms page that would name it renders only in a browser and was not read on 8 October.", "The terms of service, privacy policy and paid agreement at platform.minimax.io/protocol/ return a page with no document text to a plain reader.", "RDAP for minimax.io gives a registration date of 2021-03-27 and a transfer on 2025-01-31.", "platform.minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and www.minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt redirects to the home page.", "The API release notes page has no entry after 28 October 2025. Model releases are dated on a separate page." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.json", "live": { "slug": "minimax-voice-cloning", "probe": { "target": "https://api.minimax.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:00:30.078871086Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 171, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 289, "p95ms24h": 567, "samples24h": 36, "samples30d": 36, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 36, "ok": 36 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.minimax.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T11:03:48.93092331Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:03:48.93092331Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Fish Audio", "b": "MiniMax", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.fish.audio", "b": "https://api.minimax.io", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$15 per 1M characters", "b": "$60 per 1M characters", "name": "Price for voice clone" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (Python SDK)", "b": "Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. The two official MCP servers are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "8", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-03-10", "b": "2026-08-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2024-08-18", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2024-08-28", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "218 stars, 6.4k npm/wk, 37k PyPI/wk", "b": "377 npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against Fish Audio Voice Cloning API's 51.3 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Fish Audio Voice Cloning API leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Fish Audio Voice Cloning API or MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design?" }, { "answer": "Fish Audio Voice Cloning API, at $15 per 1M characters against $60 per 1M characters for MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for voice clone, Fish Audio Voice Cloning API or MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Fish Audio Voice Cloning API and MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Fish Audio Voice Cloning API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.fish.audio and MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design at https://api.minimax.io.", "question": "Can an agent call Fish Audio Voice Cloning API and MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 65 against 56", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 58 against 53" ], "also": [ "Cheaper for voice clone, $15 against $60 per 1M characters" ], "goodFor": "Cheap, quick clones of your own voice and for prompt-designed voices at volume.", "slug": "fish-audio-voice-cloning", "watchFor": "No consent or speaker verification in the API" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 70 against 65", "Security \u0026 auth, 39 against 28", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 38 against 13" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Teams already using MiniMax speech models that want quick clones or prompt-designed voices at a flat fee per voice across 40 languages.", "slug": "minimax-voice-cloning", "watchFor": "The terms of service and privacy policy render only in a browser, so voice ownership, training use and retention terms were not read" } ], "job": { "capability": "voice.clone", "name": "Voice clone" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-voice-cloning-vs-fish-audio-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP vs Fish Audio Voice Cloning API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-voice-cloning-vs-fish-audio-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.json", "title": "Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP vs MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-voice-cloning-vs-fish-audio-voice-cloning.json", "title": "ElevenLabs Voice 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and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against Fish Audio Voice Cloning API's 51.3 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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Cloning needs individual or enterprise account verification, the terms and privacy policy could not be read without a browser, and no statement on training with uploaded voice audio was found in the docs." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.min.md" }, "markdown": "MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against Fish Audio Voice Cloning API's 51.3 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Fish Audio Voice Cloning API leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do voice clone. Fish Audio Voice Cloning API is cheaper for voice clone, $15 against $60 per 1M characters.\n\n- Fish Audio Voice Cloning API: grade D, 51.3/100, rank #671 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-voice-cloning.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fish-audio-voice-cloning.json\n- MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design: grade D, 53.1/100, rank #640 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Fish Audio Voice Cloning API (D)\n\nGood for: Cheap, quick clones of your own voice and for prompt-designed voices at volume.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 56\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 58 against 53\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for voice clone, $15 against $60 per 1M characters\n\nWatch for: No consent or speaker verification in the API\n\n### MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design (D)\n\nGood for: Teams already using MiniMax speech models that want quick clones or prompt-designed voices at a flat fee per voice across 40 languages.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 39 against 28\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 38 against 13\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: The terms of service and privacy policy render only in a browser, so voice ownership, training use and retention terms were not read\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Fish Audio Voice Cloning API | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 70 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 78 | Fish Audio Voice Cloning API +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 56 | Fish Audio Voice Cloning API +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 28 | 39 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Fish Audio Voice Cloning API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 13 | 38 | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design +25 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 53 | Fish Audio Voice Cloning API +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.3 · D** | **53.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Fish Audio Voice Cloning API | MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Fish Audio | MiniMax |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fish.audio` | `https://api.minimax.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for voice clone | $15 per 1M characters | $60 per 1M characters |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (Python SDK) | Proprietary API under MiniMax's platform terms. The two official MCP servers are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-03-10 | 2026-08-21 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-08-18 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-28 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 218 stars, 6.4k npm/wk, 37k PyPI/wk | 377 npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Fish Audio Voice Cloning API.** Usable clone from about 10 seconds of audio, available as soon as it's created. No consent or speaker verification in the API.\n\n**MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design.** Typed OpenAPI files, published prices of $1.50 a cloned voice and $3 a designed voice, and optional transcript and watermark checks. Cloning needs individual or enterprise account verification, the terms and privacy policy could not be read without a browser, and no statement on training with uploaded voice audio was found in the docs.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Fish Audio Voice Cloning API\n\n1. Send 2 or 3 clean single-speaker clips with matching `texts`, or the API runs ASR on them\n2. Pass the model `_id` as `reference_id` in TTS. Check `state` before relying on it\n3. For one-off voices send `references` inline to `/v1/tts` instead of creating a model\n4. Send the `model: voice-design-1` header on voice design calls\n5. Keep concurrency at 5 until prepaid spend passes $100, there's no documented retry guidance\n\n### MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design\n\n1. Upload the sample to `POST /v1/files/upload` with `purpose=voice_clone`, then pass the integer `file_id` and a new `voice_id` of 8 to 256 characters to `POST /v1/voice_clone`\n2. Synthesise once with T2A within 7 days or the voice is deleted. A preview inside the clone call does not count\n3. Read `base_resp.status_code` on every response. Errors such as 2038 (no cloning permission) and 2039 (duplicate `voice_id`) arrive in the body\n4. Voice design returns `trial_audio` as hex in the JSON body. Write it to a file and keep it out of the model context\n5. Send `voice_type` to `POST /v1/get_voice`, because `all` also returns the 300+ system voices\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Fish Audio Voice Cloning API or MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design?\n\nMiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design scores 53.1 (D) on agent readiness against Fish Audio Voice Cloning API's 51.3 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Fish Audio Voice Cloning API leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Which is cheaper for voice clone, Fish Audio Voice Cloning API or MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design?\n\nFish Audio Voice Cloning API, at $15 per 1M characters against $60 per 1M characters for MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Fish Audio Voice Cloning API and MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Fish Audio Voice Cloning API and MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design without installing anything?\n\nYes. Fish Audio Voice Cloning API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.fish.audio and MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design at https://api.minimax.io.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fish-audio-voice-cloning-vs-minimax-voice-cloning.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"fish-audio-voice-cloning\", \"b\": \"minimax-voice-cloning\"}`. 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