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Fish Audio vs AssemblyAI

Fish Audio (Fish Audio) and AssemblyAI (AssemblyAI) both sit in Audio. Fish Audio is the cheaper entry point at Open weights; API from $15/M chars. AssemblyAI shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (8 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeFish Audio

Fish Audio

AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI

SegmentAudioAudio
VersionS1Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime
Entry costOpen weights; API from $15/M charsFree tier · from $0.15/1M tok
Pricing tiers—Free Credits free · Universal-2 Async STT $0.15 · Universal-Streaming English / Multilingual $0.15 · Universal-3.5 Pro Async STT $0.21 · Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime STT $0.45 · Text-to-Speech (AssemblyAI-TTS-1) $15
Model stackFish Speech S1AssemblyAI-TTS-1 · Claude · Claude 4.6 Sonnet · Claude 4.8 Opus · Gemini 2.5 Pro · Gemini 3.5 Flash · GPT-5.5 · Qwen3 Next 80B A3B · u3-rt-pro · Universal-2 · universal-3-6-pro · universal-3-pro · Universal-3.5 Pro · Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime · Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime · Universal-Streaming English · Universal-Streaming Multilingual
Context window—n/a
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d08
OriginChinaGlobal
CapabilitiesVoice cloning, Multilingual, Self-hostSpeaker diarization, Summarisation, Topic detection, PII redaction, LeMUR framework, Pre-recorded STT, Real-time STT, Voice Agent API
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