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By the toolist.ai editors. Read from Cartesia's pricing page, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated November 2, 2026.
Cartesia pricing
Cartesia's cheapest paid plan is Pro at $5 a month billed monthly. On Pro, that works out to $0.038 per minute of generated speech if you use the whole allowance.
Free plan: 20,000 credits a month (about 27 minutes of Sonic-3.6 speech) and $1 of voice-agent usage; for evaluation and personal use only, no commercial licence
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Includes | Price per minute of generated speech |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | free | not listed | 20,000 credits a month (about 27 minutes of Sonic-3.6 speech, about 1 hour 51 minutes of speech to text) and $1 of voice-agent usage; 2 concurrent TTS requests, 1 phone number; evaluation and personal use only | – |
| Pro | $5 | not listed | 100,000 credits a month (about 133 minutes of speech) and $5 of voice-agent usage; commercial use licence, instant voice cloning, 3 concurrent TTS requests, 3 phone numbers; overages $65 per million credits | $0.038 |
| Startup | $49 | not listed | 1.25 million credits a month (about 1,667 minutes of speech) and $49 of voice-agent usage; 2 professional voice clone slots, organizations, 5 concurrent TTS requests; overages $45 per million credits | $0.029 |
| Scale | $299 | not listed | 8 million credits a month (about 10,667 minutes of speech) and $299 of voice-agent usage; 4 professional voice clone slots, priority support, 15 concurrent TTS requests; overages $38 per million credits | $0.028 |
| Enterprise | not listed | not listed | Custom credits, agent usage and volume pricing; custom concurrency, DPAs and BAAs, a shared Slack channel, SSO and security questionnaires | – |
Price per minute of generated speech is our calculation: the monthly-billing price divided by what the plan includes, assuming you use all of it. It is not a measured cost.
| Cost per finished minute | Not measured by us. Calculated from the plan: $0.038 per minute of generated speech on Pro. |
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Prices last checked: 2026-11-02 on Cartesia's pricing page.
Price history
No price change since we first recorded these prices on November 2, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.
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Before you pay
- Latency claims differ by who measures: Cartesia says Sonic-3.6 replies in under 90 ms, but Coval's independent benchmark put its median perceived time to first audio at 437 ms in early September 2026, slower than Cartesia's own Sonic-3.5 (270 ms) and ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 (182 ms) on the same board.
- Cartesia's pages disagree on the free plan: the Sonic page says Free includes instant voice cloning, but the pricing page lists instant cloning from Pro and marks it unavailable on Free. Free is for evaluation and personal use; the commercial licence starts at Pro.
- Minutes are estimates: credits are spent at 1 per character, which Cartesia puts at about 750 to 800 credits a minute of audio, so the plan minutes this record uses (Cartesia's own approximations) are the upper end.
- Past the monthly credits, paid plans either stop or, with overages on, charge $65 (Pro), $45 (Startup) or $38 (Scale) per million credits; unused credits roll over up to twice the plan's monthly credits.
- SaaS24reviews' tester, trying the older Sonic-3 in January 2026, found its delivery slightly less refined than ElevenLabs for polished narration, so creators of audiobooks or voiceovers may prefer a narration-focused tool.
See the full Cartesia review and how we research.
Sources
- Cartesia pricing (checked 2026-11-02)
- Cartesia: Sonic (checked 2026-11-02)
- Cartesia blog: Introducing Sonic-3.6 (August 27, 2026) (checked 2026-11-02)
- Cartesia docs: Instant Voice Clone (checked 2026-11-02)
- SaaS24reviews: ElevenLabs vs Cartesia, I use both AI voice generators (Supriya Siddhanta) (checked 2026-11-02)
- Artificial Analysis: Text to Speech leaderboard (provider voice) (checked 2026-11-02)
- Internet Archive: Cartesia pricing (January 15, 2026) (checked 2026-11-02)
- Coval: Time to First Audio, Measured Right (September 8, 2026) (checked 2026-11-02)