Cartesia Sonic
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Plans and prices
From Cartesia Sonic's own pricing page, checked 1 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Pro | $5 a month | 100K credits / month · $5 prepaid agents / month · Commercial use license · Instant voice cloning · $5/mo |
| Startup | $49 a month | 1.25M credits / month · $49 prepaid agents / month · Pro voice cloning · Organizations · $49/mo |
| Scale | $299 a month | 8M credits / month · $299 prepaid agents / month · Priority support · High concurrency limits · $299/mo |
| Free | Free | 20K credits / month · $1 prepaid agents / month · Text to Speech · Speech to Text · $0/mo |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Custom credits & agent usage · Volume pricing · Custom concurrency limits · DPAs and BAAs · Shared Slack channel · SSO · Security questionnaires · Custom |
The facts
Each one read from Cartesia Sonic's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Commercial use
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Concurrency
- The Free plan lists two concurrent Sonic text-to-speech requests, while Pro lists three.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Cartesia says Sonic can be deployed on-premise, in a customer VPC on AWS, GCP, or Azure, or through OEM licensing.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Emotion
- Sonic interprets emotional subtext and can insert non-verbal expressions such as laughter into transcripts.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Managed Agents can use Cartesia-provisioned numbers, import Twilio numbers, or connect a carrier over SIP.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Sonic supports 44 languages.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Latency
- Sonic has sub-90ms latency.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Localization
- Sonic can localize an audio clip into other languages while carrying over emotion, tone, and speaker identity.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Paid from
- 5checked 20 Sep 2026
- Product
- Sonic is a text-to-speech model for real-time voice applications.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Pronunciation
- Custom pronunciation dictionaries let users specify pronunciations for proper nouns and domain terms.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Security
- Cartesia lists HIPAA compliance, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, and PCI on the Sonic page.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Cartesia's documentation directs users to Discord to chat with the Cartesia team and community for help.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Voice agents
- Managed Agents combine Ink-2 speech-to-text, a chosen LLM, and Sonic-3.6 text-to-speech with turn-taking and interruption handling.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Voice cloning
- Instant voice cloning can use 10 seconds of audio, while Pro Voice Clone training uses 30 minutes or more from one speaker.checked 1 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- web,apichecked 20 Sep 2026
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