Cartesia
Sonic speech generation and Ink transcription models, with dated snapshots, streaming transports and model-specific voice fine-tuning.
20 native snapshots and named service records reviewed. Rolling aliases are deduplicated. Historical internal checkpoint identities, complete voice inventory and additional hosts remain under review.
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Estimate = (input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price) / 1,000,000. Include conversation history in input and billed reasoning in output. Input-only decision models ignore the output setting; enter all billed input for one decision, including its question and criteria. Media, tools and discounts are separate.
20 models
| Compare | Model | Input tokensPublished limit* | Output tokensMaximum per response* | Input pricePer 1M tokens | Output pricePer 1M tokens | Cost per question1,000 input + 500 outputEstimated · uncached |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not collected | Raw PCM, WAV (Bytes only), MP3 (Bytes only)output formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaApproximately 1 credit per characterRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Raw PCM, WAV (Bytes only), MP3 (Bytes only)output formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaApproximately 1 credit per characterRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Raw PCM, WAV (Bytes only), MP3 (Bytes only)output formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaApproximately 1 credit per characterRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Raw PCM, WAV (Bytes only), MP3 (Bytes only)output formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaApproximately 1 credit per characterRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Raw PCM, WAV (Bytes only), MP3 (Bytes only)output formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaApproximately 1 credit per characterRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Raw PCM, WAV (Bytes only), MP3 (Bytes only)output formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaApproximately 1 credit per characterRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Raw PCM, WAV (Bytes only), MP3 (Bytes only)output formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaApproximately 1 credit per characterRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Not collected | Usage pricingNot collected | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Raw PCM, WAV (Bytes only), MP3 (Bytes only)output formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaApproximately 1 credit per characterRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Not collected | Usage pricingNot collected | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Not collected | Usage pricingNot collected | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Not collected | Usage pricingNot collected | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Not collected | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaApproximately 1 credit per characterRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Not collected | Usage pricingNot collected | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Not collected | Usage pricingNot collected | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Not collected | Usage pricingNot collected | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | Not collected | Usage pricingNot collected | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | JSON transcriptoutput formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · Cartesia3 credits per second of audioRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | JSON transcriptoutput formats | Usage pricingNot collected | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
| Not collected | JSON transcriptoutput formats | Usage pricing $38.00 / 1M creditsScale overage · Cartesia$45.00 / 1M creditsStartup overage · CartesiaRealtime: 1 credit/second; file: 1 credit/2 secondsRates & conditions ↗ | Different billing unitPrice details ↗ | |||
* Media models show their native limits. A shared context window includes both input and output tokens.
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Closed-weight model variants and explicitly identified closed-source managed model components across language, code, image, video, audio and other documented modalities. Global provider and historical-release coverage is being expanded; this is not yet exhaustive. 172 company reviews are still open.
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