How did Cartesia Sonic-3.6 do on X?
Cartesia posted the Sonic-3.6 launch from @cartesia on Aug 17, 2026. The post has 91,034 views, 660 likes, 72 reposts, 26 quotes and 39 replies, an engagement rate of 0.88%. It ranks #1785 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing Sonic-3.6: our most lifelike TTS yet, and another step change in naturalness across 44 languages. Just three months after our Sonic-3.5 launch, we've made fundamental model improvements based on feedback from the teams building on Sonic. We're #1 on @ArtificialAnlys across both the provider and controlled voice streaming leaderboards — best-in-class voices + the best underlying model. Available in beta today. Hear it for yourself 👇
- 52%the median launch175K median views
- #1785of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 5.1xits own following17,819 followers
- Views
- 91K
- Likes
- 660
- Reposts
- 72
- Quotes
- 26
- Replies
- 39
- Bookmarks
- 327
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 91K views would cost $9K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 11x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 5.1 views for every follower of @cartesia.
What launched?
Cartesia launched Sonic-3.6, its most lifelike text-to-speech model yet, with improved naturalness across 44 languages, three months after Sonic-3.5.
How does it compare with other launches?
Cartesia Sonic-3.6 has more views than 37% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 52% of the median launch's 175K views.
- Cartesia Sonic-3.691K
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Cartesia Sonic-3.6 | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 91K | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.88% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 5.1 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 26 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 35.9 | 14.2 |
Other Cartesia launches we track: Cartesia Managed Agents (1.2M views) and Cartesia Line (159.9K views). All 3 Cartesia launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 263K | 35% | #1036 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 92% | #586 |
| Image launch posts | 620 | 143.1K | 64% | #362 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 52% | #1785 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 17.8K followers, the post reached 5.1 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 1.7 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 586 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 26 quote posts, 2.9 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Introducing Sonic-3.6: our most lifelike TTS yet, and another step change in naturalness across 44 languages. Just three months after our…". The post runs 67 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Monday (UTC). Monday launches have a median of 181.4K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- How many views did Cartesia Sonic-3.6 get on X?
- 91,034 views. Cartesia posted it from @cartesia on Aug 17, 2026, and the post has 660 likes, 72 reposts, 26 quotes, 39 replies and 327 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Cartesia Sonic-3.6 a big launch on X?
- It ranks #1785 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 37% of them and 52% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.88%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 91K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 91K views would cost $9K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 11x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/cartesia-sonic-3-6, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.