Strongest fit
Who it is built for
- Developers building multilingual voice products
- Teams processing live or recorded conversations
- Product teams that need structured data from audio
Gladia
Speech-to-text and audio intelligence through one API
Gladia provides an API for real-time and asynchronous audio transcription, plus audio intelligence features that turn speech into structured data. Developers can process live or recorded audio and video with multilingual transcription, speaker diarization, timestamps, translation, and analysis capabilities.
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- Best for
- Developers building multilingual voice products
- Pricing signal
- USD 0.61 / hour
- Primary category
- Speech-to-text
- Last verified
- Jul 30, 2026
The decision
Should Gladia make your shortlist?
Start with the job, the team, and the constraints. Product fit becomes much clearer when those three line up.
Practical use cases
Jobs it can take on
- Transcribe live voice streams in real time
- Generate transcripts from recorded audio or video
- Add speaker labels, language detection, and summaries to conversation data
Before you choose
Know the tradeoffs
- Starter accounts are limited to 30 concurrent real-time requests and 25 concurrent asynchronous requests.
- The initial EUR 50 credit grant is one-time and does not reset monthly.
- Rate limits for calls and transcribed audio volume vary by pricing tier.
Inside the product
What you can actually do with it.
The core product capabilities, grouped around the work they enable.
Real-time and asynchronous transcription
Processes live audio streams and pre-recorded audio or video through the same API platform.
Multilingual speaker recognition
Includes automatic language detection, language switching, speaker diarization, and word-level timestamps.
Audio intelligence
Adds capabilities such as translation, subtitles, named entity recognition, PII redaction, sentiment analysis, and summarization.
Typical workflow
Create an API key and send an audio file for asynchronous processing or stream audio for real-time transcription. Configure the transcription and audio intelligence features your application needs, then use the returned transcript and structured output in your product or workflow.
Plans and official links
Plans and accessUSD 0.61 / hour.
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Starting pointUSD 0.61 / hour
See plans- Provider
- GLADIA SAS
- Based in
- FR
- Founded
- 2022
Official destinations
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