Cartesia vs Typecast
Listeners rate Cartesia's Sonic 3.6 above every Typecast model.
ServiceNow, Decagon, and Quora run their production voice agents on Cartesia. One model, 44 languages, at about half Typecast's price per character.
Voice quality
Listeners rate Sonic 3.6 above every Typecast model
- Artificial Analysis plays listeners two clips of the same line without naming the model, and rates every model on the board the same way.
- Sonic 3.6 leads SSFM-v30, Typecast's highest-rated model, by more than 170 points.
Provider Voice Arena Elo
Higher is better
Price
Cartesia costs about half what Typecast does
- Both prices are the published rate on each company's largest self-serve plan: Cartesia Scale at $299 for 8 million credits, and Typecast's Plus API plan at $0.07 per 1,000.
- Both bill text to speech at one credit per character, so the rates compare directly.
Price per 1M characters
USD on the largest self-serve plan, lower is better
Reasons why companies choose Cartesia over Typecast
Human-like naturalness
Intonation, pacing, pronunciation, emotion, and audio quality that drive higher completion rates
Cartesia1275 EloTypecast1101 EloSSFM-v301055 EloSSFM-v21September 2026
Cost
Great models don't need to be expensive.
Cartesia$37.40 per 1M characters on ScaleTypecast$70 per 1M characters on the Plus API planLanguages
Comprehension and trust across a global customer base.
Cartesia44 languages from one model, with native accentsTypecast37 languages on SSFM-v30
Frequently asked questions
How is the quality score measured?
It comes from Artificial Analysis, an independent benchmark. Listeners hear two clips of the same line without being told which model produced either, and pick the one they prefer. Sonic 3.6 rates above both Typecast models on the board, SSFM-v30 and SSFM-v21.
How do Cartesia and Typecast prices compare?
On each company's largest self-serve plan, Cartesia Scale works out to $37.40 per million characters ($299 for 8 million credits) and Typecast's Plus API plan to $70 ($0.07 per 1,000 credits). Both charge one credit per character for text to speech. See Cartesia pricing.
How many languages does Cartesia support?
44 languages from one model, including English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese. Typecast lists 37 languages for SSFM-v30.
How long does it take to switch from Typecast?
One to two weeks for most teams. Cartesia is integrated into the major voice agent platforms and every model is on the public API, so there is no platform to move onto and nothing to unpick later.
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