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sonic-3.6

Measured 2026-08-28

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One API, every model on this board.

Naturalness

1578

Win % · 95% CI

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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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