Cartesia

Ongoing verified 2026-10-08 · 2d ago no cardeval only

Low-latency streaming TTS + STT on a renewing monthly free quota

What's free

20,000 credits/month (~27 min of Sonic TTS or ~1h51 of Ink speech-to-text)

Credit card
not required
Phone verification
not confirmed
Commercial use
evaluation only

Free limits

Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.

In the provider's words

2 concurrent TTS requests, 8 concurrent STT; 20,000 credits/month

The catch

Commercial use is NOT allowed on the free plan (the $5/mo Pro plan adds a commercial licence). Low-latency streaming voice over WebSocket/REST; own API (not OpenAI-shaped).

PlanOngoing free tier
How it renewsFree quota that renews
Expiresno expiry
Modalitiesaudio
OpenAI base URLNot OpenAI-compatible: see the official docs
Added to the hub2026-07-31

Free models: not listed yet.

Get started

This is a first-party API, not OpenAI-compatible, so there is no drop-in base URL. The endpoint, the key and a working example are in the official docs.

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How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-31) — generated from the git history of providers.json.

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