Cartesia's 20%-off yearly toggle disappears again, two days after returning

Cartesia’s pricing page has lost its annual-billing option for the second time in five weeks. The Monthly / Yearly (Save 20%) toggle that had just reappeared on 2026-08-26 — defaulting to a discounted Yearly view of Pro $4/mo, Startup $39/mo, and Scale $239/mo — is absent again in a 2026-08-28 recapture. The “Compare plans in detail” grid subtitle, which had read “same billing period as above” while the toggle existed, is also gone, confirming the control was removed rather than just defaulting differently. Every self-serve tier now shows a single flat rate: Pro $5/mo, Startup $49/mo, Scale $299/mo — identical to the rates shown between the toggle’s first removal (2026-07-22) and its brief return.

Credit allowances (20K / 100K / 1.25M / 8M per month), prepaid voice-agent balances ($1 / $5 / $49 / $299), the flat $0.06/min Line voice-agent rate, and $0.014/min telephony are all unchanged. Two smaller copy changes landed alongside the toggle’s removal: the pricing-page comparison grid now labels the Voice Agents section “Managed Agents” (was “Line”) and its agent-slot row “Cartesia-provisioned phone numbers” (was “Number of agent slots”), with the same 1/3/5/10/Custom values; and voice localization is now described as “225 credits per added voice accent” rather than “225 credits as a one-time cost,” with the credit amount unchanged. Cartesia’s docs also gained a new “Running out of credits” section explaining that a workspace-level overage toggle determines whether over-allotment requests fail or bill as overage.