Overview
Cartesia develops the Sonic text-to-speech model, listed on its pricing page as Sonic-3.6, which is designed for real-time voice applications and agents. Sonic consumes one credit per character, which Cartesia estimates at roughly 750 to 800 credits per minute of audio.[8] Plans are Free with 20,000 credits a month, Pro at US$5 with 100,000 credits, Startup at US$49 with 1.25 million and Scale at US$299 with 8 million, each with a matching monthly allowance of prepaid agent dollars, plus a custom Enterprise tier.[8]
Cartesia strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Lowest-priced paid plan among the developer services listed
- Published credit-to-minute conversion
Limitations
- Primarily an API; little end-user tooling
- Narrower product range than large cloud providers
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Cartesia alternatives and competitors
Alternatives to Cartesia: companies ranked in the same lists.
ElevenLabs
Murf AI
WellSaid
Amazon Lex
Google Cloud Conversational Agents (Dialogflow CX)
Microsoft Azure AI Speech
Speechify
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