Lokutor vs Cartesia.
Cartesia sells voice models and a voice-agent product billed by call duration. Lokutor is one integrated pipeline on one bill, 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 | about 5.2¢ a minute | 6¢ of call duration; 1.4¢ more a minute with a Cartesia phone number |
| What the minute covers | Speech recognition and voice in the platform minute; the language model billed by the token | Language-model use is free for agents built in its UI for a limited time |
| Free to try | $5 of credit, 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 | Numbers $5 a month; lines per minute by country, e.g. 3.5¢ for a call received in Spain | 1.4¢ a minute when you use one of its numbers |
Cartesia's figures are from its own pricing page, read 12 October 2026; prices change, so check it. Lokutor's are on our pricing page (4.2¢ a minute for the platform plus the language model by the token, about 1¢ at a typical prompt; prepaid, billed per second). 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 to pay as you go, with the language model on the same bill.
- 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.
Is Lokutor an alternative to Cartesia?
Yes. Cartesia's pricing page lists 6¢ (+1.4¢ with its phone number) a minute (Billed as call duration. Language-model use is free for agents built in its UI "for a limited time".), read 12 October 2026. Lokutor is about 5.2¢ a minute: 4.2¢ a minute for the platform plus the language model by the token, about 1¢ at a typical prompt; prepaid, billed per second. Lokutor also runs on-premise or on-device, and speaks Catalan, Galician and Basque. Compare what each minute includes before comparing totals; we have not benchmarked Cartesia's audio quality or latency.
How does Lokutor’s price compare with Cartesia’s?
Cartesia’s pricing page lists voice agents at 6¢ a minute of call duration (read 12 October 2026), with the language model free for agents built in its UI for a limited time. Lokutor works out at about 5.2¢ a minute at a typical prompt: 4.2¢ for the platform, with speech recognition and the voice inside it, plus the language model by the token, 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: our models are small enough to run in real time on an ordinary CPU. Private deployments are quoted separately; ask at lokutor.com/enterprise or write to contact@lokutor.com.
Can I try Lokutor before paying?
Yes. New accounts get $5 of credit when they confirm their email, about 95 minutes of conversation, with 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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$5 of credit to start, no card. Build an agent and talk to it in your browser.