Cartesia halves voice agent rate to $0.03/min, bills LLM usage separately
What happened
Between the Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026 captures of Cartesia's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Voice agent per-minute rate cut from $0.06 to $0.03 on Free, Pro, Startup, Scale; LLM usage during calls changes from free for UI-created agents (limited time) to billed separately. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price decrease) with a downward direction. The current page lists Pro at $5, Startup at $49 and Scale at $299.
It lands 21 days after Cartesia's previous change, "Cartesia drops unlimited seat promise from every plan on pricing page" (Oct 12, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Cartesia: Professional voice cloning capped (unlimited → 2/4/Custom)" (Aug 17, 2026). Cartesia has been tracked since 2026-07-15.
In the same window Huggingface, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cohere and Google also changed their AI & Machine Learning pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Pro, Startup, Scale · Price−50%$0.06$0.03
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro, Startup, Scale | Price | $0.06 | $0.03 | −50% |
Values as written on Cartesia's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Cartesia's pricing page (www.cartesia.ai) from Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where pro, startup, scale price reads $0.06 and then $0.03.
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Cartesia, the last 90 days
Full history- Nov 2, 2026decreaseCartesia halves voice agent rate to $0.03/min, bills LLM usage separately · this change
- Oct 12, 2026packagingCartesia drops unlimited seat promise from every plan on pricing page
- Aug 17, 2026packagingCartesia: Professional voice cloning capped (unlimited → 2/4/Custom)
Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window
All AI & Machine Learning changes- HuggingfaceNov 2Huggingface extends hardware price table to cover Jobs, rates unchanged
- AnthropicOct 31Anthropic splits Max into Max ($100) and Ultra ($200), replacing Max 20x
- OpenAIOct 30OpenAI: Pro plan adds up to $500/month in API credits
- CohereOct 26Cohere: Model Vault Rerank 4 Fast/Pro Medium renamed Rerank 5 and cut from $5.00/hr ($3,250/mo) to $4.00/hr…
- GoogleOct 12Google Workspace swaps Gems for AI skills, rewords Gemini on Starter plan
Questions about this change
Did Cartesia raise prices in November 2026?
No — prices went down. Between Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026 Cartesia's pricing page showed 1 price cut: Pro, Startup, Scale: $0.06 → $0.03 (−50%).
What changed on Cartesia's pricing page between Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026?
Pro, Startup, Scale price: $0.06 → $0.03 (−50%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Cartesia change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 2 other pricing-page changes for Cartesia in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Cartesia drops unlimited seat promise from every plan on pricing page" on Oct 12, 2026; Cartesia has been tracked since 2026-07-15.