Inworld AI vs Yandex

Inworld AI — Application · Private · Undisclosed · 1 of 1 figure sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Realtime API and Yandex SpeechKit 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; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

6 shared capabilitiesShared product type

6 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list image generation, model inference, speech to text and 3 more.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship API service and platform.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldInworld AIYandex
StageUndisclosedPublic
Founded20211997 24 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAPI service, Infrastructure service, Model API, PlatformAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersMountain View, USAMoscow, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 6

Image generationModel inferenceSpeech to textText generationText to speechVoice agent

Not verified for Yandex · 1

Video generation

Recorded for Inworld AI. Yandex’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Inworld AI · 12

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCode reviewCustomer supportData analysisDocument extractionModel hostingModel trainingKnowledge retrievalTranslationSearch answers

Recorded for Yandex. Inworld AI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Inworld AI

API service

Realtime APIAPI service

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 STTAPI service

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 TTSAPI service

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

Platform

Realtime RouterPlatform

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.

Yandex

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

Platform

Yandex AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.

No counterpart

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

Infrastructure service

Inworld ComputeInfrastructure service

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.

Model API

Inworld InferenceModel API

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

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

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.