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tool: "Cartesia"
slug: "cartesia"
category: "Voice Agents & Speech/Audio"
pricing_model: "Hybrid"
pricing_transparency: "Public"
entry_price_monthly: 5
entry_price_annual: 4
annual_discount_pct: 0
native_currency: "USD"
free_plan_available: false
free_trial_days: null
enterprise_pricing_available: false
number_of_plans: null
key_limit_metric: null
last_checked_date: "2026-09-20"
last_manually_verified: "2026-09-20"
verification_status: "Verified"
vendor_pricing_page: "https://cartesia.ai/pricing"
vendor_website: "https://cartesia.ai"
source: https://saaspricehub.io/tools/cartesia
---

# Cartesia pricing

Voice AI research lab building state-of-the-art speech synthesis models (Sonic) with ultra-low latency (<100ms). Usage-based pricing: pay-per-character generation, entry rate around $0.017/1K characters. Enterprise custom for volume. Popular with voice agent developers who need faster-than-ElevenLabs synthesis for real-time conversations.

## Current entry price

**$5/month** billed monthly. **$4/month** billed annually.

## All tiers

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Key limit |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | $0 | 20,000 credits/mo + $1/mo prepaid voice-agent balance, no credit card required |
| Pro | $5 | $4 | per mo, 100,000 credits, 3 parallel requests, commercial use, Instant Voice Cloning |
| Startup | $49 | $39 | per mo, 1.25M credits, Pro Voice Cloning |
| Scale | $239 | $239 | per mo (~$2,868/yr), 8M credits, higher parallel-request limits |
| Enterprise | custom | custom | volume + dedicated support |
| Usage | usage | usage | Voice Agent (Line) $0.06/min on every plan + $0.014/min telephony when using Cartesia-provided phone numbers |

## Pricing model

- **Model:** Hybrid
- **Key limit metric:** Not specified
- **Free plan:** No
- **Free trial:** No separate trial
- **Enterprise pricing:** Not offered
- **Native currency:** USD

## Verification

- **Last automated check:** 2026-09-20
- **Last manual verification:** 2026-09-20
- **Verification status:** Verified
- **Source:** https://cartesia.ai/pricing

## Recommendation

In other words, Cartesia is worth it for developers building real-time voice agents where sub-100ms TTS latency matters (voice interruption handling, conversational feel). Sonic model is competitive with ElevenLabs on quality and faster on latency. Usage-based pricing keeps it flexible for developer teams. Downside: newer than ElevenLabs, smaller voice library, less known outside the voice-AI developer community.

## Alternative to consider

Need the widest voice library and cloning tools? ElevenLabs. Building a full voice agent stack? Vapi or Retell (which integrate Cartesia). Long-form narration only? Play.ht or ElevenLabs.

## Vendor context

2026-09-20 MANUAL VERIFY via WebSearch. BILLING MODEL RESTRUCTURE: Cartesia added a full subscription ladder on top of its historical pay-as-you-go pricing. New tiers Free, Pro $5/mo, Startup ~$49/mo, Scale ~$239/mo, plus Enterprise. Voice Agent (Line) product still usage-billed at $0.06/min flat plus $0.014/min for Cartesia-provided telephony. Pricing Model changed from pure Per Usage to Hybrid to reflect the subscription+usage combo. Entry moves from $0 (pure usage) to $5/mo minimum for commercial use — that gate was the main change. Verification Status upgraded to Verified.

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*Pricing data maintained by SaaS Price Hub. Human-readable page: [https://saaspricehub.io/tools/cartesia](https://saaspricehub.io/tools/cartesia). All prices in USD unless otherwise noted. This file is machine-readable and updated within 24 hours of any tracked price change.*