Cartesia Sonic 3.6 API
$0.396/min on Varosity credits ($0.360/min with your own key).
no cartesia account needed · no subscription · failed renders never billed
Best for
- ~90ms TTFA
- 42 languages
- AI laughter + emotion
- streaming-native
- Cartesia's latest
Trade-offs
- voice ids are library-specific — call list_voices
Call it from your code
One Varosity key works for every model.
curl -X POST https://varosity.ai/api/v1/tts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VAROSITY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"text": "Welcome to the launch. Here's what's new this week.",
"voiceModel": "cartesia-sonic-3.6"
}'Or ask your agent
Connect Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client to https://varosity.ai/api/mcp with your key, then say:
"Use Varosity with cartesia-sonic-3.6 to read this script aloud: …"Agent setup guide
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