Cartesia vs ElevenLabs: pricing, commercial use, and license
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Cartesia
Paid-plan commercial use is on the record. Read the caveats before you ship.
ElevenLabs
A paid plan is the shipping path. Free-plan output is not cleared for commercial use.
| Fact | Cartesia | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | verified Free is $0/mo with 20K credits per month. | verified The Free card lists 10k credits per month and includes Sound Effects and Music in the product list on that card. |
| Commercial use | verified A commercial use license is listed under Pro, in the 'Everything in Free, plus' block, not in the Free feature list above it. | verified Free users may only use the services for non-commercial purposes. Paid users may use them for commercial purposes. Both must follow the Prohibited Use Policy. |
| Ownership of outputs | unverified Unverified. | verified As between the user and ElevenLabs, the user retains all rights in Input and, except as the terms set out, all rights in Output. Output does not include ElevenLabs' voice models or LLMs. |
| License caveat | verified Docs say credits are only used by successful requests, and that managed agents are billed per minute in USD rather than credits. A terms page for output ownership was not fetched. | verified The fetched terms page says it applies outside the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK, and points residents of those places to a different terms page. |
| Steam disclosure | verified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. | verified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. |
| Engines and export | unverified Unverified. | unverified Unverified. |