From 40 won per minute… Cartesia launches managed voice agent

Cartesia launched Managed Agents, an enterprise voice-agent platform, on October 29 at an introductory rate of $0.03 per minute (about 40 won), with telephony, LLM and speech-model costs billed separately. The platform combines call connectivity, a knowledge base and external tool integrations, letting agents query outside systems mid-call and answer from documents. Live-call language switching is currently supported for English, Spanish, Hindi, French and Japanese, with plans to expand to 44 languages. The launch matters because it bundles the STT, LLM, TTS and tool-execution stages that enterprises typically assemble separately, at a promotional per-minute price. Next, watch uptake among enterprise customers and whether Cartesia delivers on the 44-language roadmap before the introductory pricing changes.