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# Rime Arcana v3 / v3 Turbo

Rime, Arcana family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2026-02-04.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rime API | `arcana` | https://users.rime.ai (geo endpoints users-west.rime.ai, users-east.rime.ai; HTTP and WebSocket JSON streaming) | https://docs.rime.ai/ |
| Together AI | `Rime Arcana V3 / Arcana V3 Turbo (dedicated endpoints)` |  | https://www.together.ai/models/rime-arcana-v3-turbo |
| Telnyx |  |  | https://telnyx.com/release-notes/rime-arcana-v3-voices |
| On-prem |  |  | https://www.rime.ai/resources/arcana-v3 |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text
- Output: audio
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 67. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- Native code-switching across 10 languages: One voice switches mid-conversation among English, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Hebrew and Tamil (Together AI lists 11 languages); word-level timestamps. Source: https://www.rime.ai/resources/arcana-v3
- Enterprise latency and on-prem scale: ~120 ms on-prem model latency, ~200 ms TTFB via cloud API, 100+ concurrent generations per machine; Rapidata listener tests (US) preferred it 61-64% of the time over ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5, Google Chirp and Cartesia Sonic (vendor-run). Source: https://www.rime.ai/resources/arcana-v3

## Notes

Calling the existing `arcana` model id automatically serves v3. Arcana V3 Turbo is the low-latency variant (Together AI: ~120 ms time-to-first-audio, $10 per 1M characters plus GPU-hour on dedicated endpoints). Earlier: Arcana (Apr 2025), Arcana v2. Rime's own per-character price not verified.

Rime's flagship TTS for enterprise voice agents (call centres, scheduling).

Launch video: [rime-arcana-v3-launch](../videos/rime-arcana-v3-launch.md).

Sources: https://www.rime.ai/resources/arcana-v3 , https://x.com/rimelabs/status/2019099676939813306 , https://www.together.ai/blog/rime-arcana-v3-turbo-and-rime-arcana-v3-now-available-on-together-ai

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/rime-arcana-v3/