Pick Cartesia if
product teams shipping a live voice agent or TTS API who will stay on Sonic / Ink.
Read the Cartesia pageCartesia vs ElevenLabs
Our take
Pick Cartesia if product teams shipping a live voice agent or TTS API who will stay on Sonic / Ink. Pick ElevenLabs if podcast, product, and localization teams who need controllable multilingual speech. Skip Cartesia if narrators who only need a one-off MP3 of a script (WellSaid). Skip ElevenLabs if users who only want chat, or teams that cannot send scripts to a US-hosted voice API.
Best for
Cartesia Voice that has to answer live
ElevenLabs TTS, voice cloning, or dubbing
Free plan
Cartesia $0 · 20K credits / month. $1 prepaid agents / month. TTS + STT. No commercial-use license on this card
ElevenLabs $0 · , 10,000 credits
Lowest paid
Cartesia Pro $5/mo
ElevenLabs Starter $6/mo
Next step up
Cartesia Startup $49/mo
ElevenLabs Creator $22/mo
Coding agent
Cartesia Managed voice agents
ElevenLabs Agents / dubbing / image-video
Runs where
Cartesia Hosted
ElevenLabs Hosted
Watch out
Cartesia Free is not a commercial license
ElevenLabs Credits are not minutes
Last checked
Cartesia 2026-10-22 · cartesia.ai/pricing
ElevenLabs 2026-10-19 · elevenlabs.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick ElevenLabs if
podcast, product, and localization teams who need controllable multilingual speech.
Read the ElevenLabs page