AI Transcription / Review
Gladia
Gladia is a developer-focused speech-to-text API offering async and real-time transcription with speaker diarization across 100+ languages.
Not tested
Accuracy (tested)
$0.61/hr
From
No
Free tier
Gladia sells transcription as a usage-based API, starting at $0.61/hour for async and $0.75/hour for real-time on its pay-as-you-go Starter tier, with committed-volume Growth pricing dropping as low as $0.20/hour. It is best at affordable, high-volume batch and streaming transcription with automatic language detection and speaker diarization.
Developers who need cheap, high-volume speech-to-text with real-time streaming and diarization in a single API.
Strengths
- +Very low per-hour cost, especially at committed volume
- +100+ languages with automatic language detection
- +Async and real-time streaming in one API
- +10 free hours every month
Trade-offs
- –Developer API only, no end-user app for non-coders
- –Lowest rates require committed volume
- –Accuracy can trail premium engines on difficult audio
Gladia at a glance
- Languages
- 100+
- API
- Yes (core product)
- Real-time
- Yes
- Speaker labels
- Yes (diarization)
- Export formats
- JSON, SRT, VTT
- Human option
- No