Tool · Voice and speech

Cartesia

A fast text-to-speech and speech-to-text service aimed at developers building voice apps and phone agents. Paid plans add commercial use and copying a voice from a short clip. Free plan is for personal use.

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At a glance

Open or closed: Closed
Only usable through the maker's app or API
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Licence: Cartesia Terms of Service (The maker's own terms)
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Can I sell what I make?: Yes, on paid plans (from the Pro plan)
Terms 4.1: personal, non-commercial use unless the subscription tier permits commercial use. Pricing lists a commercial use licence from Pro up, none on Free.
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Cost: Free option: 20K credits a month (1 credit = 1 character of speech), no voice cloning, no commercial licence
Plans below.
How you use it: Maker's own API
Pricing is per API concurrency; a browser playground was not checked.
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Skill needed: Technical
Inferred: product is sold mainly as an API.
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Made by: Cartesia AI, Inc. (US)
Terms give a San Francisco, CA address and say the services are offered from facilities in the USA.
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Status: Available
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What you can make with it

A voice or speech, read my text aloud (main use)
A voice or speech, a copy of my own voice
A voice or speech, text from a recording

text to audioaudio to text

Pricing lists text to speech, speech to text, instant and professional voice cloning, and voice agents (no matching task id).

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Plans and prices

Plan	Price	Includes
Free	Free	20,000 credits a month Commercial use: No
Pro	$5 a month	100,000 credits a month Text to speech: 1 credit = 1 character; about 750-800 credits per minute of audio. Speech to text: 3 credits per second. Commercial use: Yes
Startup	$49 a month	1,250,000 credits a month Adds 2 professional voice clone slots Commercial use: Yes
Scale	$299 a month	8,000,000 credits a month Adds 4 professional voice clone slots Commercial use: Yes

Prices shown as '$' only; USD assumed. Each plan also includes the same amount in prepaid voice-agent dollars. Enterprise is custom. Only monthly prices listed.

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Rough cost of 1 minute of speech: about $0.04 / £0.03 (estimate, worked out by Plainly, not a price the maker publishes). $5 / 100,000 credits x 800 credits per minute (upper end of the stated 750-800) = $0.04. GBP at 0.75.

Rights and safety

Trains on your work?: Trains on your work unless you opt out
Terms 5.3(c)-(d): inputs and outputs may be used to train models unless agreed otherwise; you can ask them to stop for certain categories, going forward only.
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Real faces and voices: Copies a real voice (instant voice clone), you only promise you have permission
Copies a real voice (professional voice clone), you only promise you have permission
Terms forbid using another person's voice without express permission and rely on your warranty; no verification step described. Product pages for cloning not read.
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About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.