Cartesia Pricing Calculator
Updated August 2026Freemium credit-based subscription + usage overages + enterprise commitments
Cartesia pricing: Cartesia pricing 2026: Free 20K credits, Pro $5/mo, Startup $49/mo, Scale $299/mo, no annual toggle currently offered, plus Sonic credits and $0.06/min voice agents. Use the free calculator below to enter your usage and get an instant all-in monthly estimate — including overages — and see which plan is cheapest for your needs.
How Cartesia prices: Freemium credit-based subscription + usage overages + enterprise commitments.
How Cartesia prices
Freemium credit-based subscription + usage overages + enterprise commitments
Best fit — auto-selected: Enterprise · Monthly
$0.00/mo— the cheapest plan that fits; adjust usage and it re-picks
Your usage
💡 Sonic-3.6 TTS bills ~1 credit per character (~1.5 for Pro Voice Clone voices); included minutes are ~27 (Free), ~133 (Pro), ~1,667 (Startup), ~10,667 (Scale)
💡 Line voice agents bill a flat $0.06/min of call duration on every plan, drawn from a prepaid dollar balance
💡 $0.014/min only when you use a Cartesia-provided phone number; 0 if you bring your own telephony
Required capabilities
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Enterprise at your usage
TTS minutes / month: using 400 of 40K min — 39.6K min to spare
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Enterprise
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Cost Breakdown
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Why Enterprise — $0.00/mo
- Enterprise at $0.00/mo covers your 400 min.
Budget range
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Conservative
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200 min/mo
Expected
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400 min/mo
Aggressive
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800 min/mo
Which plan is cheapest as usage grows
Monthly cost vs tts minutes / month. Vertical line = your current usage.
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Get StartedCartesia plans at a glance
| Plan | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Developers evaluating Sonic and Ink; hobby projects |
| Pro | $5/mo | Hobbyists, side projects, light production |
| Startup | $49/mo | Early-stage companies, small dev teams |
| Scale | $299/mo | Production teams; high-volume deployments |
| Enterprise | Usage-based | Regulated industries; on-prem / VPC deployments |
Prices shown are list rates as of August 2026. Enter your usage above for an all-in estimate including overages and add-ons.
About this Cartesia calculator
This calculator estimates your Cartesia cost from publicly available pricing. Actual costs may vary with your specific agreement, volume discounts, and usage patterns — always verify on the provider's official pricing page for the most current rates.
Cartesia pricing — frequently asked questions
How much does Cartesia cost per month, and is annual billing available? ▼
Cartesia's self-serve plans are Free (20,000 credits/month), Pro at $5/month (100,000 credits), Startup at $49/month (1.25 million credits), and Scale at $299/month (8 million credits). As of a 28 August 2026 recapture there is no annual-billing option published on the pricing page — no Monthly / Yearly toggle and no "Save 20%" copy anywhere on the page. That control has been on-again/off-again: present through mid-2026, removed by 22 July 2026, reinstated (defaulting to a discounted Yearly view) by 26 August 2026, and gone again two days later. Scale is fully self-serve rather than sales-gated, and above it Enterprise uses custom credit and agent volumes with volume pricing negotiated with sales.
What is a Cartesia credit and how does it convert to audio? ▼
Credits are consumed per character of generated text on the flagship Sonic-3.6 text-to-speech model — roughly 1 credit per character — which the pricing page translates into included minutes: roughly 27 TTS minutes/month on Free, ~133 on Pro, ~1,667 on Startup, and ~10,667 on Scale. Ink-2 speech-to-text bills 3 credits per second of audio instead. Localizing a voice costs 225 credits per added voice accent. Cartesia sunset its Voice Changer API on 2026-08-20, and the Pro Voice Clone per-character multiplier (last published at roughly 1.5 credits per character) is no longer shown on Cartesia's live pricing or docs pages as of this revalidation.
Does Cartesia have a free tier and is a credit card required? ▼
Yes. The free tier provides 20,000 credits per month with no credit card required at signup, plus a $1/month prepaid balance for voice agents. Free-tier users get the Sonic-3.6 text-to-speech and Ink-2 speech-to-text models, unlimited workspace seats, and one voice agent slot.
How is Cartesia's voice-agent pricing different from per-second TTS? ▼
Cartesia's Line voice agents are billed at a flat $0.06 per minute of call duration on every plan — Free, Pro, Startup, and Scale all pay the same rate — plus $0.014 per minute of telephony when you use a Cartesia-provided phone number. Agents draw from a prepaid dollar balance ($1/mo on Free up to $299/mo on Scale) rather than a bundle of included minutes.
Is this Cartesia pricing calculator free and accurate? ▼
Yes — it's completely free with no signup. It uses the latest publicly available Cartesia pricing (verified August 2026). Actual costs may vary with volume discounts or enterprise terms — always confirm on Cartesia's official pricing page.