Gladia Alternatives
Fast speech-to-text API with real-time transcription and speaker diarization
Gladia provides a speech-to-text API built on Whisper with added features including real-time transcription, speaker diarization, summarization, and translation.
Explore 8 alternatives to Gladia across 1 category. Updated October 2026.
Top Gladia alternatives at a glance
- AssemblyAI. Speech-to-text APIs with audio intelligence, speaker diarization, and real-time streaming
- Speechmatics. Enterprise speech-to-text API supporting 55+ languages with high accuracy
- Deepgram. Build Voice AI into your apps.
- OpenAI. API access to GPT, o-series reasoning, DALL-E, and Whisper models
- Samtal. Swedish-hosted voice AI API with TTS, ASR, voice cloning, and conversational agents. ElevenLabs-compatible
Compare Gladia with its alternatives
| Product | Pricing Model | Free Tier | Open Source | Hosting | HQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gladia | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | π«π· France |
| AssemblyAI | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | πΊπΈ United States |
| Speechmatics | Freemium | ✓ | — | Cloud + Self-hosted | π¬π§ United Kingdom |
| Deepgram | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| OpenAI | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | πΊπΈ United States |
| Samtal | — | — | — | Cloud | πΈπͺ Sweden |
| MusicGPT | Freemium | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Cartesia | Freemium | ✓ | — | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| LemonFox | Subscription | ✓ | — | Cloud | π©πͺ Germany |
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