Cartesia
sonic-3.6
Measured 2026-08-28
Run sonic-3.6 on Speko →One API, every model on this board.
Naturalness
1578
Win % · 95% CI
—
Drift
10
Synth p50
120ms
120–135 p50–p90 · US East · vendor-direct · n=400
Vendor-direct from US East, n=400 (2 sweeps x 200), concurrency 1, one keep-alive socket.
Robustness
0.21
Fined:
• fatal · currency — dropped the minus sign (7 of 7 transcripts)
→ we sent “The balance is -$12.50.”
→ it said “The balance is twelve dollars and fifty cents.”
• fatal · dates — never said “monday” (33 of 49 transcripts)
→ we sent “Payments resume Mon, Feb 2.”
→ it said “Payments resume on February 2nd.”
• fatal · large numbers — never said “three point four million” (24 of 49 transcripts)
→ we sent “The clip hit 3.4M views and 1.2k shares.”
→ it said “The clip hit three point four M views and one point two K shares.”
+ 22 more fined
Cost / 1M chars
$50.0
Derived, not published: Cartesia documents "approximately 1 credit per character" and Pro at $5/100K credits. No per-character USD rate exists. Cloned voices bill 1.5x.
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