Sonic 3.6
Released
2026-08-27
Last refreshed
2026-08-27
Status
Researched today
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Sonic 3.6 is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
- Family
- Cartesia
- Released
- 2026-08-27
- Architecture
- Audio / Speech
- Specialization
- audio
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Pricing
Output / 1M
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Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 1 route · Cartesia
About
Sonic 3.6 is Cartesia's proprietary text-to-speech model on the Cartesia API. It is a one-way audio-output (TTS) model; weights are not publicly released.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cartesia | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
Audio
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Pricing
Output / 1M
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Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 1 route · Cartesia