Always-free quotaNot privateHigh confidence

Cartesia

A recurring no-cost API allowance covering 2 cataloged models.

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Free accessAlways-free quota
Payment cardNo
AccountRequired
Sources9 first-party links
API endpointhttps://api.cartesia.ai

Models mentioned

2
Sonic-3.5Ink-2

Equivalent paid value

Up to $1.00/mo
Daily$0.033
Weekly$0.23
Monthly$1.00
One-time

How this was valued: The free plan's 20K shared credits are valued at the Pro plan's $5 per 100K-credit ratio. Sonic and Ink examples are alternative uses of the same balance, not additive allocations.

Limits and terms

Plan Price USD Per Month
0
Credits Per Month
20,000
Approximate Tts Minutes Per Month
27
Approximate Stt Hours Per Month
1.85
Tts Concurrent Requests
2
Stt Concurrent Requests
8

What happens to your prompts?

Not privateReviewed

Default terms permit indefinite storage and perpetual use of inputs and outputs for labeling, improvement, promotion, and model training.

Plan Scope
Cartesia API and web services. Default consumer/developer terms differ from enterprise TTS and STT zero-data-retention arrangements.
Prompt Retention
Inputs and outputs may be hosted, cached, stored, reproduced, and used while stored to operate, improve, and promote the service. No default fixed retention period is published.
Response Retention
Outputs are covered by the same storage and use license. Enterprise ZDR can prevent retention for eligible TTS and STT payloads.
Ordinary Logging
Account, device, service activity, content, and safety or troubleshooting information is collected under the privacy policy.
Model Training
Unless otherwise agreed, Cartesia may use inputs, outputs, and interactions for labeling, classification, moderation, and model training under a perpetual license.
Product Improvement
Default terms expressly authorize service and model improvement and enhancement with Content.
Human Or Operator Access
Cartesia reserves the right to review or monitor inputs and outputs using automated and manual tools.
Subprocessors And Routing
Contracted service providers can receive content rights needed to operate the service; third-party services and enterprise subprocessors may separately process data.
Deletion Controls
Users can opt out of future training use, but the opt-out does not reverse prior uses or model improvements. Enterprise ZDR is available for eligible TTS and STT APIs.
Caveat
Free-tier content is training-eligible by default. The opt-out is prospective, and enterprise ZDR is neither available by default nor applicable to every product.

Eligibility

Account Required
Yes
Payment Method Required
not explicitly documented
Commercial Use On Free Plan
No

Primary sources

9