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CartesiavsElevenLabs
Real-time TTS optimized for conversational AI versus Ultra-realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning
Compare interactively in Explore →Choose Cartesia when…
- •You're building real-time voice agents where latency is critical (<80ms)
- •You need streaming TTS that works well in phone systems
- •You want SSM-based TTS as an alternative to diffusion models
Choose ElevenLabs when…
- •You need the most realistic TTS for user-facing applications
- •You want voice cloning from audio samples
- •You're building multilingual voice agents
Side-by-side comparison
Field
Cartesia
ElevenLabs
Category
Voice AI
Voice AI
Type
Commercial
Commercial
Free Tier
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Pricing Plans
Pay-as-you-go: $0.09/1000 charsScale: Custom
Starter: $5/moCreator: $22/moPro: $99/mo
GitHub Stars
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Cartesia
Ultra-low-latency streaming TTS (<80ms) built for real-time voice agents and phone systems. State Space Model architecture (Sonic) delivers natural prosody at production latency.
ElevenLabs
State-of-the-art TTS API with voice cloning, multilingual support, and low-latency streaming. Used in podcasts, audiobooks, conversational AI agents, and game NPCs.
Shared Connections2 tools both integrate with
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ElevenLabs
Only ElevenLabs (3)
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