Cartesia review

Cartesia is a voice platform built around its Sonic text to speech models, and its pricing makes voice cloning cheap to start. The Pro plan costs $5 a month and adds a commercial use license and instant voice cloning to 100K credits, which Cartesia lists as about 133 minutes of Sonic-3.6 speech. Startup at $49 a month adds pro voice cloning with 2 professional clones and about 1,667 minutes, and Scale at $299 raises that to 4 clones. A cloned voice can be localized to another accent for 225 credits per added accent, and the same account includes speech to text and managed voice agents with phone numbers. The catch for creators is the interface: Cartesia is aimed at developers and product teams, so there is no video editor or dubbing studio like Descript or ElevenLabs offer. We compared documented features and published prices; check concurrency limits if you plan real-time use.

Who it is for

developers and creators who build voice apps

Price

Free plan; Pro $5 a month with instant voice cloning; Startup $49 adds pro voice cloning.

Pro $5 /mo Select Pro 100K credits / month $5 prepaid agents / month Everything in Free, plus Commercial use license Instant voice cloning
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 13, 2026.

Key features

• Instant voice cloning and a commercial use license on the $5 Pro plan
• Pro voice cloning from the $49 Startup plan, with 2 professional clones
• Pro includes 100K credits, about 133 minutes of Sonic-3.6 speech a month
• Localizing a voice costs 225 credits per added accent
• Speech to text and managed voice agents on the same account

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Cheapest instant voice clone on this list, tied at $5 a month
• Strength: Free plan includes 20K credits a month
• Strength: Same voices can power phone agents with Cartesia-provisioned numbers
• Weakness: Built for developers first, so creators get fewer editing tools
• Weakness: Professional voice cloning starts at $49 a month
• Weakness: Voice agent calls and LLM usage are billed separately

Key facts

• Free plan: Yes, 20K credits a month
• Instant clone from: Pro, $5 a month
• Speech on Pro: About 133 minutes a month
• Professional clones: 2 on Startup, 4 on Scale

Where it ranks

Cartesia is No. 4 in our Best AI Voice Cloning Tools verdict.