Gladia
Speech-to-text plus audio intelligence in one call, priced for scale
About
Gladia is a European speech-to-text API built around the idea that transcription should arrive with understanding attached. Its Solaria-1 model covers 100+ languages with native code-switching; Solaria-3 is optimized for English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Diarization, sentiment analysis, summarization, entity detection, translation, and emotion detection are bundled into the base price rather than billed as add-ons — the pricing pitch versus AssemblyAI. Starter plans run $0.61/hr async and $0.75/hr real-time, dropping to $0.20/$0.25 on Growth; new signups get a 50 euro credit. GDPR-first with EU data residency on paid plans. Watch-outs: no uptime SLA on the pay-as-you-go tier, enterprise pricing is custom-only, and accuracy leadership claims rest on Gladia's own open benchmarks.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Vendor-reported: Solaria-3 leads their open benchmarks on conversational English
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: hackernoon and aitools.fyi document Solaria-1/Solaria-3, bundled audio intelligence, pricing; Accuracy leadership claims rest on Gladia's own open benchmarks; No uptime SLA on Starter; enterprise pricing custom-only.