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Cartesia brings back its 20%-off yearly billing toggle

Cartesia pricing

Cartesia reinstated the Monthly/Yearly (Save 20%) toggle on its pricing page a month after removing it, defaulting again to yearly rates: Pro $4/mo, Startup $39/mo, Scale $239/mo (vs. $5/$49/$299 monthly).

Before

No billing-period toggle. A single monthly rate per tier: Free $0/mo, Pro $5/mo, Startup $49/mo, Scale $299/mo, Enterprise custom (as of 2026-07-22).

After

Monthly / Yearly (Save 20%) toggle restored, defaulting to Yearly: Free $0/mo, Pro $4/mo, Startup $39/mo, Scale $239/mo; Monthly tab shows $5/$49/$299.

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Cartesia’s pricing page (cartesia.ai/pricing) has the annual billing option back. On 2026-07-22 the “Self-serve plans & usage” Monthly / Yearly toggle had disappeared entirely, leaving a single monthly rate per tier. A recapture on 2026-08-26 shows the toggle restored in the same spot above the plan cards, defaulting to Yearly (badged “Save 20%”) — so a visitor who does not touch the control again sees Pro at $4/mo, Startup at $39/mo, and Scale at $239/mo, with a Monthly tab revealing $5/$49/$299. The removal lasted roughly a month.

Everything else on the page is unchanged: credit allowances hold at 20K / 100K / 1.25M / 8M per month, prepaid voice-agent balances at $1 / $5 / $49 / $299, Line voice agents at a flat $0.06 per minute of call duration on every plan, and telephony at $0.014 per minute on a Cartesia-provided number. The flagship text-to-speech model is now labeled Sonic-3.6 on the pricing and product pages (previously Sonic-3.5), though this appears to be a version bump rather than a pricing change.

From Cartesia's pricing timeline
Yearly Billing Toggle Reinstated

The Monthly / Yearly (Save 20%) toggle removed from cartesia.ai/pricing on 2026-07-22 is back. The page now defaults to the Yearly view again — Pro $4/mo, Startup $39/mo, Scale $239/mo — with a Monthly tab showing $5/$49/$299. Credit allowances, prepaid agent balances, concurrency limits, and the $0.06/min voice-agent rate are unchanged. The flagship TTS model is now labeled Sonic-3.6 on the pricing page (was Sonic-3.5).

About Cartesia
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Cartesia operates a credit-based freemium subscription model with four self-serve tiers — Free (20K credits/mo), Pro ($5/mo for 100K credits), Startup ($49/mo for 1.25M credits), and Scale ($299/mo for 8M credits, fully self-serve, not sales-gated) — plus a custom Enterprise tier with volume commitments. Every plan ships unlimited workspace seats and voice slots.

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Cartesia pricing history

  1. Aug 2026
    Yearly Billing Toggle Removed Again, Two Days After Returning
  2. Aug 2026
    Yearly Billing Toggle Reinstated
  3. Jul 2026
    Yearly Billing Option Removed from the Pricing Page
  4. Feb 2026
    Voice Agents GA + Flat Per-Minute Pricing
  5. Sep 2025
    Scale Tier + Enterprise Deployment Introduced
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