# Cartesia Text to Speech API plans, limits and prices Text to speech over a REST API and a WebSocket, in Free, Pro, Startup and Scale plans metered in credits. - Provider: Cartesia - Kinds: Text-to-speech API - Plans recorded: 4 - Checked: 2026-10-17 - Page for people: https://plans.intoperson.com/p/cartesia-tts ## Plans Values that apply to one plan. "Not stated" means the official pages do not say; it is not an estimate. ### Free Plan id: `cartesia-free` · Free plan - Price: Free [1] - Included: 20,000 characters every month [1][2][3] - Extra usage: Not stated [4] - Concurrency: Not recorded - Rate limit: Not recorded - Commercial use of the generated audio: Not stated [5][6] - Voice cloning from the buyer's recording: Not stated [5][7] - Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/cartesia-free) (choose the plan on the page) ### Pro Plan id: `cartesia-pro` · Subscription - Price: $5/month [8] - Included: 100,000 characters per month [8][2][9] - Extra usage: $0.065 per 1,000 extra [10][2][11][12] - Concurrency: Not recorded - Rate limit: Not recorded - Commercial use of the generated audio: Yes [5][13] - Voice cloning from the buyer's recording: Yes [5][14] - Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/cartesia-pro) (choose the plan on the page) ### Startup Plan id: `cartesia-startup` · Subscription - Price: $49/month [15] - Included: 1,250,000 characters per month [15][2][16] - Extra usage: $0.045 per 1,000 extra [17][2][11][18] - Concurrency: Not recorded - Rate limit: Not recorded - Commercial use of the generated audio: Yes [5][19][13] - Voice cloning from the buyer's recording: Yes [5][19][14] - Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/cartesia-startup) (choose the plan on the page) ### Scale Plan id: `cartesia-scale` · Subscription - Price: $299/month [20] - Included: 8,000,000 characters per month [20][2][21] - Extra usage: $0.038 per 1,000 extra [22][2][11][23] - Concurrency: Not recorded - Rate limit: Not recorded - Commercial use of the generated audio: Yes [5][19][24][13] - Voice cloning from the buyer's recording: Yes [5][19][24][14] - Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/cartesia-scale) (choose the plan on the page) ## Applies to every plan Recorded for the product or the provider; a plan-level value or a listed exception replaces it. ## Collection notes Plans are the four self-serve columns of the pricing page (Free, Pro, Startup, Scale); Enterprise is custom. Cartesia meters in credits shared by speech-to-text and text to speech, and one credit is one character of standard text to speech, so the credits are entered as characters. The dollars of voice-agent credit in a plan are not modelled. ## Sources and notes Each number points to the provider's own sentence, as it appears on the page on the date shown. 1. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > Free $0 /mo Start free 20K credits / month 2. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > 1 credit equals 1 character. 3. How the value follows from the source: 20K credits a month at one credit per character. 4. The page says paid users can turn on overages; it does not say what the Free plan does at its limit. 5. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > Everything in Free, plus Check Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com Commercial use license Check Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com Instant voice cloning 6. The Free card lists no commercial use license, and the Pro card adds one to Free; no sentence states the Free plan's commercial use. 7. The Free card lists no instant voice cloning, and the Pro card adds it to Free; no sentence states that Free lacks it. 8. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > Pro $5 /mo Select Pro 100K credits / month 9. How the value follows from the source: 100K credits a month at one credit per character. 10. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > At pro tier, it's $65 per 1M credits. 11. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > Paid users can turn on overages to go negative into their credit balance. 12. How the value follows from the source: $65 per 1M credits is $0.065 per 1,000 credits, one credit per character. 13. The plan card lists a commercial use license as an addition to the plan below it; the Free card does not list one. 14. Instant voice cloning is listed from the Pro card; each card is "Everything in" the one below. 15. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > Startup $49 /mo Select Startup 1.25M credits / month 16. How the value follows from the source: 1,250K credits a month at one credit per character. 17. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > At startup tier, it's $45 per 1M credits. 18. How the value follows from the source: $45 per 1M credits is $0.045 per 1,000 credits, one credit per character. 19. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > Everything in Pro, plus 20. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > Scale $299 /mo Select Scale 8M credits / month 21. How the value follows from the source: 8,000K credits a month at one credit per character. 22. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > At scale tier, it's $38 per 1M credits. 23. How the value follows from the source: $38 per 1M credits is $0.038 per 1,000 credits, one credit per character. 24. [cartesia.ai/pricing](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > Everything in Startup, plus Check these plans against a workload: https://plans.intoperson.com/guide.md describes the inputs; the REST form is GET https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/products/cartesia-tts.