Voice and text-to-speech Cartesia vs Typecast
Can you ship a game made with Cartesia or Typecast? By stored vendor quotes: Cartesia: "Paid plans, with caveats", cheapest verified commercial plan $5/mo; Typecast: "Paid, or free with credit".
Both columns are the ledger's stored values. Open the tool page for the full quote and source link. This page does not invent a winner.
Paid-plan commercial use is on the record. Read the caveats before you ship.
Paid plans are the cleaner shipping path. Free-plan output needs the attribution the license requires.
Built only from rows with a stored vendor quote. Open each tool page for the exact sentence, source link, and fetch date.
| Fact | Cartesia | Typecast |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Cartesiaverified Free is $0/mo with 20K credits per month. | Typecastverified Free is $0 with 3,000 lifetime download credits (about 5 minutes of audio). Generating and playing back voices is free on every plan; credits are spent when you download. |
| Commercial use | Cartesiaverified A commercial use license is listed under Pro, in the 'Everything in Free, plus' block, not in the Free feature list above it. | Typecastverified Anything downloaded on the Free plan must carry attribution. |
| Ownership of outputs | Cartesiaunverified Unverified. | Typecastverified The Studio Terms of Use say that, subject to the terms and during a valid subscription period, you keep ownership of your content and own the output. |
| License caveat | Cartesiaverified 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. | Typecastverified Generated audio can be downloaded and used only during your subscription. After it expires, you can keep using audio you already downloaded, but you can't make new edits or downloads. |
| Steam disclosure | Cartesiaverified 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. | Typecastverified 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 | Cartesiaunverified Unverified. | Typecastverified There is no engine plugin. You export audio files and import them into Unity or Unreal as standard audio assets. |