Rime AI vs Cartesia: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

Rime AI uses usage based pricing, so you only pay for the amount of speech you generate. The Starter plan begins at $0.03 per 1,000 characters, which is close to one minute of audio. New users get about 800 minutes free, worth around 800,000 characters, with no credit card required to start.

Pricing also depends on the voice model you pick. Mist v3 costs $0.03 per 1,000 characters and focuses on speed, while Coda costs $0.05 per 1,000 characters and focuses on natural sounding speech.

For larger organizations, the Enterprise plan moves to custom volume pricing based on scale. It includes unlimited concurrent voice generations, unlimited custom voice clones, dedicated support, and options to deploy on the cloud, on prem, or inside a private network.

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.