Deepgram vs Gladia
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Deepgram
Real-time speech-to-text platform
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Gladia
Real-time audio intelligence API — multilingual transcription, speaker...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | $200 free credit (one-time, no credit card required, no expiration) on the Pay As You Go plan | 10 hours/month free (async + real-time, no credit card required) |
| Paid from | Pay-as-you-go from $0.0048/min (Nova-3 Monolingual streaming) | From $0.61/hr async or $0.75/hr real-time (Starter pay-as-you-go) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 200,000+ developers | 300,000+ developers; ~2,000 enterprise/corporate customers (mid-2026) |
| Founded | 2015 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | Gladia (independent) |
| Verdict | Deepgram is the specialist pick for latency-sensitive voice applications. Nova-3 streams transcription from $0.0048/min with sub-300ms latency, and the Flux model (multilingual since April 2026) builds end-of-turn detect... |
Gladia's biggest 2026 development isn't a model release — it's the pending sale. OVH Groupe entered exclusive acquisition talks on June 11, 2026, to fold Gladia's speech-to-text stack into its sovereign-cloud AI Lab; ter... |
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