Cartesia vs ElevenLabs: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

Cartesia offers five pricing plans, from a free plan to a custom Enterprise option, so both small projects and large companies can find a fit.

• Free ($0/month): 20K credits a month plus $1 in prepaid agent usage, with access to Text to Speech and Speech to Text.

• Pro ($5/month): 100K credits a month, commercial use rights, and instant voice cloning.

• Startup ($49/month): 1.25M credits a month, professional voice cloning, and organization accounts.

• Scale ($299/month): 8M credits a month, priority support, and higher concurrency limits.

• Enterprise (Custom pricing): Custom credits, volume pricing, custom concurrency, SSO, and compliance agreements.

Extra charges apply for things like phone numbers ($0.014 per minute) and voice agent call minutes ($0.06 per minute), and subscriptions can be paused or cancelled anytime.

ElevenLabs offers a free plan and several paid tiers. The Free plan gives 10,000 credits a month with basic access to text to speech, sound effects, and more.

• Starter ($6/month): Adds commercial use, instant voice cloning, and dubbing.

• Creator ($22/month, often $11 for the first month): Adds professional voice cloning with far more credits.

• Pro ($99/month): Higher quality API audio output.

• Scale ($299/month): Adds team seats and collaboration.

• Business ($990/month): 10 seats plus low cost, low latency speech.

Enterprise pricing is custom and includes dedicated support, custom security, and higher usage limits. Paying yearly gives two months free on every paid plan.