Cartesia launches Managed Agents voice agent platform: #1 of 30 on Speech Agent Arena, $0.03 per minute at launch
Voice model company Cartesia launched Managed Agents on Oct 29, an end-to-end voice agent platform for enterprise phone calls that tunes its own speech-to-text and text-to-speech models together with the agent harness, and bundles telephony, knowledge bases, tool calls and outbound batches. Cartesia says it ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis's Speech Agent Arena with a 1115 Elo and scores 87.4% accuracy and 90.7% experience on ServiceNow's EVA-Bench (vendor-reported, with GPT-5.5 as the reasoning model). Launch pricing is 50% off at $0.03 per minute.
Key Takeaways
- On Artificial Analysis's Speech Agent Arena blind preference test, Managed Agents ranks #1 of 30 agents with a 1115 Elo, ahead of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Minimal (1099), Grok Voice 3.0 (1064) and GPT-Live-1 (1041) (Cartesia blog, as cited by the vendor)
- First-attempt results on ServiceNow EVA-Bench across 200+ customer service, IT service and HR scenarios: 87.4% accuracy and 90.7% experience, versus 73.7%/71.2% for Grok Voice 3.0 and 59.0%/61.6% for GPT Realtime 2.1 (EVA-Bench)
- All these benchmark runs use GPT-5.5 as the reasoning model; Cartesia's internal evaluation says 85% of calls had no turn-taking issues, versus 67% for other agents
- Launch pricing is 50% off at $0.03 per minute; Cartesia says the platform has already handled tens of millions of conversations in finance, retail, hospitality and healthcare
- It supports 44 languages; English, Spanish, Hindi, French and Japanese can switch mid-call today, with the rest coming soon
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