Deepgram vs Gladia

Deepgram — Infrastructure · Private · Late-stage · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  Gladia — Infrastructure · Private · Undisclosed

Relationship

Gladia's own comparison page sets its speech-to-text API against Deepgram's.

1 shared capabilityShared product typeSourced competitorTurn speech into text

1 shared capability — Across all their products, both list speech to text.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship API service.

Ludbee product records

Sourced competitor — “Real customer calls, accents, overlapping speakers, languages switching mid-sentence. That’s where Gladia beats Deepgram.”

gladia.io · checked 2026-10-17

Turn speech into text — Rivals on this job — Transcribe conversations, calls and recordings — as a finished application, or as a speech API to build on.

Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edge

Aligned comparison

FieldDeepgramGladia
StageLate-stageUndisclosed
Founded2015—
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureInfrastructure match
Stack layerAPI serviceAPI service, Application
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USARoubaix, France

Capability overlap

Shared · 1

Speech to text

Not verified for Gladia · 4

Agent orchestrationSummarizationText to speechVoice agent

Recorded for Deepgram. Gladia’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Gladia has no capability Deepgram lacks, among the 1 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Hand-checked pairing

Deepgram

API service

Deepgram Audio IntelligenceAPI service

Language-understanding features layered on Deepgram's speech recognition — summarisation, topic and intent detection over conversational audio.

Deepgram Flux TTSAPI service

Deepgram's text-to-speech API, marketed on low latency (responses from about 80ms) and on being deployable in the customer's own environment as well as on Deepgram's cloud.

Deepgram Speech-to-TextAPI service

Speech-to-text API supporting 50+ languages with streaming and batch transcription, speaker identification and smart formatting, alongside companion text-to-speech and voice-agent APIs.

Deepgram Voice Agent APIAPI service

A single API for building real-time voice agents, combining Deepgram's speech-to-text and text-to-speech with LLM orchestration.

Gladia

API service

Gladia Speech-to-Text APIAPI service

Real-time and asynchronous speech-to-text API for 100+ languages with speaker diarization and audio intelligence, including Solaria-3.

No counterpart

Gladia sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Deepgram yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

GladiaFlowApplication

GladiaFlow is a desktop application that transcribes speech into text in other applications.

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