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 pitched at accents, noise and mixed-language audio
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Gladia
Multilingual speech-to-text API with diarisation and audio intelligenc...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Usage_based | Usage_based |
| Free tier | No lasting free plan: a one-off $100 starter credit (trial), no card needed, with 2 real-time sessions | Trial only: a one-time €50 credit on sign-up (roughly 80 hours of batch audio), with no monthly reset |
| Paid from | $0.12/hour (Melia 1 pre-recorded transcription, pay as you go) | $0.61/hr batch 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 |
| Verdict | Speechmatics is serious speech infrastructure for teams that will call an API: published per-hour prices by model, real-time and batch transcription, code-switching across languages and a voice-agent model built for fast... |
Gladia is a strong specialist choice for multilingual and code-switched audio, with diarisation and audio intelligence bundled into one hourly price instead of sold as extras. Solaria-3 leads several of Gladia's own benc... |
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