IA

Inworld AI

Sells realtime voice AI APIs for consumer applications: Realtime TTS, Realtime STT, a speech-to-speech Realtime API and an LLM router across 100+ models, plus dedicated B200 GPU compute; acquired Ultravox in September 2026.

StageUndisclosed

Founded2021

HeadquartersMountain View, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Realtime TTS API service Sold on its own

  Text-to-speech API (Realtime TTS-2 and TTS-2 Flash) with voice cloning and voice design, billed per million characters.

• Realtime STT API service Sold on its own

  Speech-to-text API (Inworld STT-1) that transcribes streaming or complete audio in 30+ languages with turn detection, returning voice-profile signals for emotion, vocal style, accent, age and pitch alongside the transcript.

• Realtime API API service Sold on its own

  Speech-to-speech voice-agent API in which one WebSocket session runs Inworld speech recognition with voice profiling, a chosen LLM from 100+ with tool calling and turn detection, and Realtime TTS-2 voice output.

• Realtime Router Platform Sold on its own

  OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway that sends each request to one of 100+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others by rules on user attributes, context, A/B splits or cost, with failover and provider rates passed through at zero markup.

• Inworld Compute Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Dedicated NVIDIA B200 GPUs for high-volume realtime workloads such as LLM inference, dedicated TTS serving and custom model hosting, with Kubernetes access or Inworld-managed deployment, and deployed models routable through Inworld Router.

• Inworld Inference Model API Sold on its own

  Inworld Inference provides API access to text, image, video and decision models.

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CCartesiaEarly-stageCartesia's own comparison page ranks Sonic above Inworld's Realtime TTS models for text-to-speech.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorCreate synthetic voice and audioCompare

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scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRespeecherEarly-stageRealtime TTS and Respeecher Space both list text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAssemblyAILate-stageRealtime STT and Sync Speech-to-Text API both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBABland AIEarly-stageRealtime TTS and Bland Speech both list text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIBMPublicRealtime TTS and IBM Watson Text to Speech both list text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMurf AIEarly-stageRealtime TTS and Murf TTS Reader both list text to speech; 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Inworld AI's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOraclePublicRealtime API and OCI Speech do comparable work on speech to text and text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFRFurhat RoboticsUndisclosedRealtime API and Furhat robot do comparable work on speech to text, text to speech and voice agent; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZoomPublicRealtime STT and Zoom Scribe API both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHeyGenEarly-stageRealtime API and LiveAvatar do comparable work on speech to text, text to speech and voice agent; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.6 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNCNAVER CloudUndisclosedRealtime TTS and CLOVA Voice both list text to speech; 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Inworld AI's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlphabet (Google)PublicRealtime TTS and Cloud Text-to-Speech both list text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.7 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDescriptUndisclosedRealtime STT and Descript Rooms both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSStepFunLate-stageInworld Inference and StepFun Open Platform both list image generation; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.6 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDuolingoPublicRealtime STT and Duolingo English Test both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Inworld AI's scale not recorded; ships application rather than the same layer.3 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSynthesiaLate-stageRealtime TTS and Synthesia both list text to speech; 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scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.3 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSynthflowEarly-stageRealtime API and Synthflow Voice AI Agents both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and agent platform rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLLuma LabsLate-stageInworld Inference and Luma API do comparable work on image generation and video generation; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKreaEarly-stageInworld Inference and Krea API do comparable work on image generation and video generation; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSoundverseUndisclosedRealtime TTS and Soundverse Enterprise API both serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSierraLate-stageRealtime API and Sierra both list voice agent; Inworld AI's scale not recorded; 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scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHFHugging FaceLate-stageInworld Compute and Inference Endpoints both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGranolaLate-stageRealtime STT and Granola both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Inworld AI's scale not recorded; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLightricksLate-stageInworld Inference and LTX API both list video generation; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHiveLate-stageRealtime STT and Hive Speech-to-Text API both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSTSK TelecomPublicInworld Compute and SKT GPUaaS both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; 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Total funding

Not found · 10 Oct 2026

inworld.ai states no total. The 2022 release gives about $70M raised to Aug 2022 ($50M Series A); later press reports a further round in 2023 and aggregators disagree on totals ($117M to $133M), so no current total is recorded.

Valuation

Not found · 10 Oct 2026

No valuation stated on inworld.ai; press-reported 2023 valuations are not company disclosures.

Founded

Press release · 10 Oct 2026

Inworld's 2022 Series A press release: "Since Inworld's founding in July 2021".

Public listing

Company disclosure · 10 Oct 2026

Private company: Terms name Theai, Inc.; venture-funded; no public filing found.

Description

Company disclosure · 10 Oct 2026

TTS product page: Realtime TTS-2 and TTS-2 Flash, REST API and WebSocket; pricing page lists On-Demand through Enterprise plans.

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