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Cartesia pricing
Cartesia publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 29 August 2026, Cartesia pricing is free, then $4/month across 5 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $4/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 5
- Free tier
- Yes
Cartesia plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Pro | $4/month | 3 | +$4/month, 3 more features |
| Startup | $39/month | 3 | +$35/month, 3 more features |
| Scale | $239/month | 3 | +$200/month, 3 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 20,000 credits/month, tts and stt included, 2 concurrent tts requests, 8 concurrent stt requests, 1 voice agent slot.
Pro
$4/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- 100,000 credits/month
- Commercial use license
- Instant voice cloning
Startup
$39/monthOver Pro, this tier adds:
- 1.25M credits/month
- Professional voice cloning
- Organizations support
Scale
$239/monthOver Startup, this tier adds:
- 8M credits/month
- Priority support
- High concurrency limits
Enterprise
On requestOver Scale, this tier adds:
- Custom concurrency
- DPAs/BAAs
- SSO
- Security questionnaires
Where Cartesia stops being free
Free, Free
- 20,000 credits/month
- TTS and STT included
- 2 concurrent TTS requests, 8 concurrent STT requests
- 1 voice agent slot
Pro, $4/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 100,000 credits/month
- Commercial use license
- Instant voice cloning
What the product covers
The full Cartesia feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
core
- Sonic text-to-speech
- Ink speech-to-text
- Line voice agent platform
- Instant and professional voice cloning
security
- Flexible deployment
integration
- Telephony integration
People bring Cartesia in for building low-latency voice agents for customer support, real-time transcription for conversational applications, voice cloning for branded synthetic voices, on-device or on-premise voice ai for regulated industries. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Cartesia are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in AI
Too few ai tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartesia (this page) | Free, then $4/month | freemium | - | |
| Avathon | On request | quote | - | vs Cartesia |
| C3 AI Suite | On request | quote | - | vs Cartesia |
| Rev | Free | Per minute for human work, per seat per month for AI | - | vs Cartesia |
| Veritone | On request | quote | - | vs Cartesia |
| Verbit | $24/month | Per month by transcription hours | - | vs Cartesia |
| LatchBio | On request | quote | - | vs Cartesia |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Cartesia badges page.
Before you pay for Cartesia
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 5 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Cartesia runs on web, api, and is published by Cartesia. The full record is on the Cartesia review, and the rest of the category is under best ai tools.
Cartesia pricing questions
- How much does Cartesia cost?
- Cartesia publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Cartesia have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 20,000 credits/month, tts and stt included, 2 concurrent tts requests, 8 concurrent stt requests. Paying starts at $4/month for Pro.
- What is the difference between Free and Pro on Cartesia?
- Pro costs $4/month against Free, and adds 100,000 credits/month, commercial use license, instant voice cloning.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Cartesia worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom concurrency, dpas/baas, sso, security questionnaires. It costs On request against $4/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which ai tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 ai tools listed alongside Cartesia have a free tier: Rev, AutoGen, Vellum.
- What am I actually paying for with Cartesia?
- The record lists 6 features across 3 areas: core, security, integration. In practice it is brought in for building low-latency voice agents for customer support, real-time transcription for conversational applications, voice cloning for branded synthetic voices.
- Does Cartesia charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Cartesia prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Cartesia against before paying?
- The closest ai tools in this directory are Avathon, C3 AI Suite, Rev, Veritone. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Cartesia covering price, platforms and features.