Transcribe audio
Gladia
Speech-to-text API for pre-recorded and live audio that returns transcripts with timestamps, speaker labels and optional add-ons.
Billing
- Pricing model
- Prepaid credits with no subscription; pay for the audio processed1
- Free tier
- EUR 50 in credits, one time, valid for one year; free accounts get 3 concurrent pre-recorded jobs and 1 live session1
- Card required for free tier
- Not published
- Minimum spend
- Not published
- Billing period
- No billing cycle on Self-serve: credits are topped up manually or by auto top-up. Enterprise is an annual plan1
Prices
Prices are in euros (EUR), not converted. Per-hour rates are as published. The default model for a request is solaria-1, so the first row is the default and the third is the advertised "starts at" price.
- Async (pre-recorded),
solaria-1(default model) - EUR 0.27 per hour of audio at 0-100 hours a month, falling to EUR 0.21 per hour above 10,000 hours (Self-serve)1
- Real-time (live),
solaria-1 - EUR 0.68 per hour of audio (Self-serve)1
- Async (pre-recorded),
solaria-3(advertised price) - EUR 0.16 per hour of audio at 0-100 hours a month, falling to EUR 0.12 per hour above 10,000 hours. Used only if
modelis set tosolaria-3; pre-recorded, 5 languages1 - Advertised starting price
- From EUR 0.16 per hour of async audio on
solaria-31
Async rate by monthly volume
| Monthly volume | `solaria-1` EUR per hour (default) | `solaria-3` EUR per hour |
|---|---|---|
| 0 - 100 hours | 0.27 | 0.16 |
| 100 - 500 hours | 0.26 | 0.15 |
| 500 - 2,000 hours | 0.24 | 0.14 |
| 2,000 - 5,000 hours | 0.23 | 0.13 |
| 5,000 - 10,000 hours | 0.22 | 0.13 |
| 10,000+ hours | 0.21 | 0.12 |
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Other charges
Core features such as custom vocabulary are included in the base rate. Top-ups of EUR 1,000 or more earn bonus credits (+10% at EUR 1,000, +15% at EUR 2,500, +20% at EUR 5,000).
| Add-on | Async, EUR per hour | Real-time, EUR per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Summarization | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| Sentiment analysis | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| Translation | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Named entity recognition | 0.07 | 0.07 |
| PII redaction | 0.07 | Not available |
| Audio to LLM | From EUR 0.20 in / 1.25 out per 1M tokens | Not available |
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Plans
| Plan | Price | Concurrency | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-serve | Pay as you go, see Prices | 25 async, 30 real-time | Model training opt-in by default, free opt-out |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited | Custom models, zero data retention, custom hosting, SLAs |
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Read from Gladia’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/transcribe-audio/gladia.md