Managed Agents
Cartesia's managed platform for building and running realtime voice agents: Ink speech-to-text, an LLM you choose and Sonic text-to-speech, with turn-taking, tool calling, telephony (SIP trunking) and built-in evaluations handled by the platform.
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What it does
- Voice agent
Features 3
- Fully managed runtimeRuns agents with reasoning, tool calling and real-time actions without infrastructure for the customer to operate.
- Built-in evaluationsA framework for live testing, system metrics and custom call analytics for voice agents.
- SIP trunkingEnterprise feature for connecting managed voice agents to telephony via SIP trunks.
How it compares
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Bland
Cartesia presents Managed Agents as the alternative to Bland for voice agents; both are managed platforms for building phone/voice agents.
Cartesia | Bland alternative for voice agents
Company disclosure · 9 Oct 2026
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- Pricing
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"Start free, scale as you ship. Pay for the credits and agent minutes you use"; call duration $0.06 per minute on every plan (Free $0 with $1 prepaid agent dollars, Pro $5, Startup $49, Scale $299, Enterprise custom).
- Description
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Company disclosure · 9 Oct 2026
"Production-ready voice agents built on the best voice models."; docs.cartesia.ai/agents/introduction: Managed Agents combine Ink, "an LLM you choose", and Sonic and handle "turn-taking, tools, and telephony".
- What it does
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Company disclosure · 9 Oct 2026
Voice agents with tool calling and real-time actions, SIP trunking and built-in evaluations.
- Sold within
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Bought directly at the published $0.06/minute agent rate; no parent offering.
- Name
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Company disclosure · 9 Oct 2026
Products menu: "Managed Agents" (voice agents); the docs call it "Managed Agents is our platform for building and deploying voice agents."
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- Deployment
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Company disclosure · 9 Oct 2026
Fully managed runtime hosted by Cartesia; no self-hosting statement on the page.
- Interfaces
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Official documentation · 9 Oct 2026
"Create and test an agent in the Playground" and "manage the same agents through the API".
- Modalities
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Company disclosure · 9 Oct 2026
Speech in (Ink), speech out (Sonic), telephony via SIP trunking.
- Intended for
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Company disclosure · 9 Oct 2026
Teams shipping production voice agents, small builders to enterprises; solution areas customer service, finance, healthcare, retail, travel.
Also from Cartesia
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Sonic / Ink API service
Sonic (text-to-speech) and Ink (speech-to-text) are Cartesia's voice-generation models, sold via API to developers and enterprises building voice agents.
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