POST https://api.anam.ai/v1/auth/session-token with personaConfig.avatarModel=cara-3 and a compatible avatarId. Tokens are bound to the supplied configuration and valid for one hour.
Regions
Production inference/media on CoreWeave in Spain/EU and US East. Enterprise can select eu/us engine regions with strict or preferred routing. External providers and stored assets are separate.
Billed per second of active session duration, including silence and idling. Monthly included minutes do not roll over. External LLM/TTS charges can be separate for bring-your-own pipelines.Source for Billing basis (opens in a new tab)
sessionLimits
Free 3 minutes; Starter 5; Explorer 10; Growth and Professional 2 hours; Enterprise unlimited under the published plan table. Account agreements and overrides govern.Source for sessionLimits (opens in a new tab)
Starter $12/month with 50 included minutes; Explorer $49 with 250; Growth $299 with 2,000; Professional $999 with 8,000. Free has 30 and no overage.Source for subscriptions (opens in a new tab)
Enterprise sessionOptions.region: eu or us. Strict routing fails rather than crossing region; preferred routing can fail over. Engine selection does not govern all stored data or external providers.Source for regionalRouting (opens in a new tab)
retentionControls
Enterprise zeroDataRetention applies to session content. Operational infrastructure logs retained 30 days; avatar source images and uploaded knowledge are excluded. Not every LLM/voice supports ZDR.Source for retentionControls (opens in a new tab)
Prices retain their published currencies and billing units below.
Published billing units · original currency · observed 14 Oct 2026
Category
Usage
Rate
Unit
Session overage
Starter session usage1
$0.16
minute of active session
Session overage
Explorer session usage1
$0.14
minute of active session
Session overage
Growth session usage1
$0.12
minute of active session
Session overage
Professional session usage1
$0.11
minute of active session
Rate conditions
Paid plan and included allowance apply. Billed per second; active silence and idle avatar time count. Minutes are aggregate session usage, not additive charges for face/STT/LLM/TTS. External providers can bill separately. Experimental model access and compatible avatar assets must be checked; no token-price conversion.
Default recordings retained up to 30 days; reports/transcripts/analytics remain until deleted. Enterprise ZDR keeps session content in volatile memory but excludes source avatar images, knowledge files and operational/account metadata. Applicable terms prohibit customer-content training, subject to any separate written agreement described in governance.
Values in the Cara 3 provider article. Linked Mabyduck methodology describes an Anam-commissioned October 2025 study, 178 participants and a 5-point Likert scale, not an exact checkpoint-specific validation of these displayed scores. Scale conversion and later study details remain unresolved.
Values in the Cara 3 provider article. Linked Mabyduck methodology describes an Anam-commissioned October 2025 study, 178 participants and a 5-point Likert scale, not an exact checkpoint-specific validation of these displayed scores. Scale conversion and later study details remain unresolved.
Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.
The record behind the model
Why it is included
Anam’s governance page explicitly identifies CARA as proprietary avatar models it develops and owns. Hosted access and open SDKs do not grant access to those model weights.
