Gladia vs AssemblyAI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Gladia
Real-time audio intelligence API — multilingual transcription, speaker...
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AssemblyAI
Speech-to-text and audio intelligence API
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Free tier | 10 hours/month free (async + real-time, no credit card required) | — |
| Paid from | From $0.61/hr async or $0.75/hr real-time (Starter pay-as-you-go) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 300,000+ developers; ~2,000 enterprise/corporate customers (mid-2026) | — |
| Founded | 2022 | 2017 |
| Maker | Gladia (independent) | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
AssemblyAI is a developer-focused speech AI platform delivering accurate transcription plus audio-intelligence features like speaker diarization, summarisation, sentiment, topic detection, and PII redaction through a cle... |
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