Gladia Realtime
Don’t want to wire up the Gladia Realtime API? Drop the file here.
The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Gladia's real-time streaming ASR API with multilingual code-switching.
Best for multilingual real-time agents and meeting captioning. Pricing: per-hour streaming (see Gladia pricing).
What it is
Gladia's Realtime endpoint provides streaming ASR with code-switching multilingual support, diarization, and word-level timestamps. Distinct from the batch entry already in this directory; pricing and feature coverage differ. Suitable for voice agents and live captioning. Best fit: multilingual real-time agents and meeting captioning. Caveats: distinct from the 'gladia' batch entry already in the directory. Pricing as listed: per-hour streaming (see Gladia pricing). Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, streaming. Directory tags: commercial-api, streaming. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.
Watch out for: Distinct from the 'gladia' batch entry already in the directory.
Install / use
wss://api.gladia.io/audio/text/audio-transcription
What people actually do with Gladia Realtime-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Gladia Realtime vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Gladia Realtime | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Transcription APIs | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | API | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Gladia Realtime
Frequently asked about Gladia Realtime
How much does Gladia Realtime cost?
Gladia Realtime is a paid product — published pricing: per-hour streaming (see Gladia pricing). Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
What platforms does Gladia Realtime support?
Gladia Realtime is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.
How do I get started with Gladia Realtime?
Gladia Realtime is used through its API: get a key from the vendor, then call it from your own code. There is no desktop app to install.
What are the limitations of Gladia Realtime?
Distinct from the 'gladia' batch entry already in the directory.
Who is Gladia Realtime best for?
Multilingual real-time agents and meeting captioning.
Is Gladia Realtime open source?
No. Gladia Realtime is a proprietary API. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
What kind of tool is Gladia Realtime?
In this directory Gladia Realtime is filed under commercial api, streaming as a API.
What are the alternatives to Gladia Realtime?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/gladia-realtime-alternatives comparing Gladia Realtime with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Gladia Realtime-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from Gladia Realtime?
Gladia Realtime is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Gladia Realtime?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the Gladia Realtime category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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