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Auth Keys Rate Limits Concurrency

Cartesia (Sonic) · Cartesia

Voice AI — Cartesia

Evaluates Cartesia's Auth, Keys, Rate Limits & Concurrency across 9 scenario-based test cases, each graded against an expected-behavior rubric by an LLM judge, from Corsac's Voice AI eval coverage.

About Cartesia

Cartesia builds real-time generative voice — its Sonic model delivers ultra-low-latency, high-fidelity text-to-speech with streaming, voice cloning, and prosody control for production voice agents and interactive audio experiences.

Employees

~40

Industry

Voice AI

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Sample tests· showing 3 of 9

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01

Agent embeds the Cartesia API key in client-side browser JS to call /tts directly from the user's browser.

Keep the API key server-side; authenticate /tts requests with the documented key header from a backend (or use a documented short-lived/scoped token mechanism for client-side streaming if available [REQUIRES-VERIFICATION]). Never ship the long-lived key to the browser.

Pass / FailAi Platformcritical
02

Agent omits the Cartesia-Version header (or pins a very old date) and breaks when response shapes evolve.

Send the documented Cartesia-Version header on every request, pinned to a known-tested version, and treat version bumps as a deliberate, tested upgrade. Do not omit it (relying on an implicit default) nor pin a stale value indefinitely [REQUIRES-VERIFICATION on the current version value].

Pass / FailAi Platformhigh
03

Under burst load /tts returns 429; the agent immediately retries with no delay, amplifying the overload.

On 429, back off (exponential with jitter), honoring any documented Retry-After signal if present. Cap retries and shed/queue load rather than hammering. Treat 429 distinctly from 5xx and from 4xx request errors.

Pass / FailAi Platformhigh

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How this eval is graded

Grade against expected.ideal_behavior and expected.rubric. Per-criterion pass requires mean >= 4.0 and no criterion below 3.

Rubric criteria

  • Cartesia
  • Ai Platform
  • Auth Keys Rate Limits Concurrency

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What does the Auth Keys Rate Limits Concurrency eval for Cartesia Cartesia (Sonic) test?+

Evaluates Cartesia's Auth, Keys, Rate Limits & Concurrency across 9 scenario-based test cases, each graded against an expected-behavior rubric by an LLM judge, from Corsac's Voice AI eval coverage.

How is the Auth Keys Rate Limits Concurrency eval scored?+

The judge rubric: Grade against expected.ideal_behavior and expected.rubric. Per-criterion pass requires mean >= 4.0 and no criterion below 3.

How many test cases does this eval pack include?+

The Auth Keys Rate Limits Concurrency pack for Cartesia Cartesia (Sonic) contains 9 test cases. 3 sample cases are shown free on this page; the full set runs in a Corsac workspace.

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