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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/murf-tts.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/murf-tts.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP for maintenance \u0026 community (+26).\n\nPick Murf TTS API + MCP for reliability (+27), agent ergonomics (+6), security \u0026 auth (+10), payments \u0026 pricing (+10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP | Murf TTS API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 90 | Murf TTS API + MCP +27 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 85 | Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 71 | Murf TTS API + MCP +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 68 | Murf TTS API + MCP +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Murf TTS API + MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 53 | Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP +26 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 69 | Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.2 · B** | **70.9 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP | Murf TTS API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Cartesia | Murf |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cartesia.ai` | `https://api.murf.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | MIT (SDK and MCP server) |\n| Tools exposed | 15 | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-08-20 |\n| Popularity | 133 stars, 166k npm/wk, 177k PyPI/wk | 108 stars, 669 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP.** WebSocket input accepts streamed LLM text with contexts, flushing and word timestamps. Five TTS incidents on the status page between 29 July and 21 August 2026.\n\n**Murf TTS API + MCP.** Falcon 2 costs 1 cent per 1,000 characters on pay as you go, with a $2 minimum purchase. Falcon 2 concurrency is 2 outside US-East on free and pay as you go, 5 on US-East.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP\n\n1. Send the `Cartesia-Version` header on every request.\n2. Pin a dated snapshot such as `sonic-3.6-2026-08-27` if output must not change.\n3. Move off `sonic-2`, `sonic-turbo` and `sonic-3-2025-10-27` before 2026-10-20.\n4. Expect a 429 at the plan's concurrency limit and queue requests yourself.\n5. Mint a short-lived access token for browser clients instead of shipping the API key.\n\n### Murf TTS API + MCP\n\n1. Send `locale` on every request, since `multiNativeLocale` was replaced on 2026-03-05.\n2. Split text into chunks under 3,000 characters per request.\n3. Use the US-East host for 5 concurrent Falcon 2 calls instead of 2.\n4. Set `encodedAsBase64` to get audio inline and skip the expiring download link.\n5. 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