Speechmatics vs Gladia
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Speechmatics
Speech-to-text API tuned for heavy accents and dialects
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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 | Enterprise | Freemium |
| 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 | 2006 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | OVH Groupe (acquired July 2026) |
| Verdict | This is infrastructure, not an app, you're calling an API or SDK, not clicking through a dashboard for casual use. What it's genuinely good at is holding up on messy real-world audio: strong accents, overlapping speakers... |
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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