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Gladia

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Real-time STT with speaker diarization. $10 free credits.

Speechest. 2021 · Paris, France
88
/ 100 APIVault Score

// At a glance

Free Tier
$10 credits · no card
Category
Speech
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago

// Free tier details

Available Models

Solaria (Whisper-based)Real-time streaming

Monthly Requests

$10 free credits

No credit card needed
No phone verification

// Quick start

300">"text-purple-400">import requests

response = requests.post(
    300">"https://api.gladia.io/v2/pre-recorded",
    headers={300">"x-gladia-key": 300">"YOUR_GLADIA_KEY"},
    json={300">"audio_url": 300">"https://example.com/audio.mp3", 300">"diarization": 300">"text-purple-400">True},
)

print(response.json())

// Overview

Gladia's Whisper-based API adds speaker diarization, translation, and live real-time streaming on top of state-of-the-art ASR. $10 free credits on signup.

// Pros

  • Real-time streaming ASR
  • Built-in speaker diarization
  • Translation support

// Cons

  • Credits expire
  • Newer platform

// Score breakdown

Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)84/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)72/100

Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology

// Best for

Meeting transcriptionLive captioningMulti-speaker calls