Lokutor vs Cartesia.
Cartesia sells voice models and a voice-agent product billed by call duration. Lokutor is one integrated pipeline at a single per-minute price, with Catalan, Galician and Basque as first-class languages and an on-premise or on-device option.
Published prices and features.
| Lokutor | Cartesia | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per minute | 4.1–4.75¢ in plan | 6¢ of call duration; 1.4¢ more a minute with a Cartesia phone number |
| What the minute covers | Speech recognition, language model and voice | Language-model use is free for agents built in its UI for a limited time |
| Free to try | 60 minutes a month, no card | Free plan: about 17 agent minutes |
| Self-hosting | On-premise and on-device, quoted separately | On-premise or VPC on request, through its sales team |
| Phone numbers | $5 a month on Growth and above | 1.4¢ a minute when you use one of its numbers |
Cartesia's figures are from its own pricing page, read 5 October 2026; prices change, so check it. Lokutor's are on our pricing page (Starter 4.75¢, Growth 4.3¢, Business 4.1¢ per included minute; overage 5, 4.5 and 4¢). This compares published prices and features only. We have not benchmarked Cartesia's audio quality or latency, and we are not claiming to beat it on either.
It depends what you need.
Choose Cartesia if
- You already use its text-to-speech or speech-to-text APIs and want agents on the same account.
- You are already on one of its plans and want agent minutes from the same credits.
Choose Lokutor if
- You want a flat monthly plan with minutes included, including the language model.
- Your users speak Catalan, Galician or Basque.
- You want models small enough to run on your own hardware, not only in our cloud.
Common questions.
How does Lokutor’s price compare with Cartesia’s?
Cartesia’s pricing page lists voice agents at 6¢ a minute of call duration (read 5 October 2026), with the language model free for agents built in its UI for a limited time. Lokutor’s plans work out at 4.1–4.75¢ per included minute with the language model included, so the comparison depends on how Cartesia bills the model once that offer ends.
Can Lokutor run on my own servers?
Yes. The full pipeline (turn-taking, noise suppression, speech recognition and speech synthesis) can run inside your own infrastructure, and our models run on ordinary CPUs. Private deployments are quoted separately; write to contact@lokutor.com.
Can I try Lokutor before paying?
Yes. The Free plan includes 60 agent minutes a month, one concurrent call and no card. You can build an agent, give it a voice and talk to it in the browser in a few minutes.
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Hear it for yourself.
60 minutes a month on the free plan, no card. Build an agent and talk to it in your browser.