Gladia

EU multilingual STT with a now-pinned official $/hr card. Speechmatics remains Depot multilingual pick…

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EU multilingual STT with a now-pinned official $/hr card. Speechmatics remains Depot multilingual pick (breadth/on-prem); Deepgram English agent default; Gladia when you want EU residency + code-switch at published Starter rates. Strengths: EU-native multilingual STT; Code-switching + diarization; Agent/audio intelligence add-ons.

Overall

7.9

curated_estimate

confidence: high · as of 2026-09-14

Capability fit

8.2

Price / performance

7.8

Latency / reliability

8.0

Developer & agent DX

8.2

Privacy / data retention

8.8

Lock-in risk (higher = worse)

3.5

Maturity / track record

7.2

Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.

Sources: Gladia transcription pricing (help center): https://support.gladia.io/article/understanding-our-transcription-pricing-pv1atikh8y9c8sw7sudm3rcy · Gladia pricing: https://www.gladia.io/pricing · Gladia changelog (credit billing): https://www.gladia.io/changelog

Strengths

· EU-native multilingual STT
· Code-switching + diarization
· Agent/audio intelligence add-ons

Weaknesses

· Price card on https://www.gladia.io/pricing is in EUR only (fetched 2026-10-25, HTTP 200 to plain curl: 'Starts at 0.16€ /hour' async, 'Starts at 0.68€ /hour' real-time); no $/hr rate on the page, so Depot's USD figures stay as of 2026-09-14
· Smaller than Deepgram/Speechmatics
· Less telephony agent product

Pricing notes

As of 2026-09-14 (support.gladia.io help article as fetched then): Starter PAYG async $0.61/hr, realtime $0.75/hr (30 RT / 25 async concurrent). Growth commit from $0.20/hr async / $0.25/hr realtime (up to 67% off). Diarization, auto language detect, 100+ languages included. Credit-wallet billing (new accounts €50 grant; legacy 10 hr/mo still mentioned on product pages). GDPR/HIPAA/SOC2 Type 2. As of 2026-10-25 (https://www.gladia.io/pricing, HTTP 200 to plain curl, no login): the page shows EUR rates only: 'Starts at 0.16€ /hour' (async Self-serve, Solaria-3), 'Starts at 0.68€ /hour' (real-time Self-serve), 'Start with 50€ free credits'. The help article (page says 'Updated 23 Oct 2026') no longer lists rates: 'Rates, volume tiers, add-on prices and top-up bonuses are kept up to date on our pricing page.' The USD figures above are not re-priced or converted here; any change goes through the reviewed --catalog step.

Regions: eu, globalLast reviewed: 2026-09-14Status: active

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