SoundHound AI vs Yandex

SoundHound AI — Application · Public · $3.1B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

SoundHound Music App and Alice AI do comparable work on voice agent; Yandex'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.

3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 3 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, customer support and voice agent.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldSoundHound AIYandex
Size$3.1B mkt capnot disclosed
Employees95436,991 Yandex has 39× more
Founded20051997 8 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, ApplicationAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSanta Clara, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportVoice agent

Not verified for SoundHound AI · 15

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewData analysisDocument extractionImage generationModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText generationText to speechTranslationSearch answers

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

SoundHound AI has no capability Yandex lacks, among the 3 recorded here.

Products, side by side

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

SoundHound AI

Application

SoundHound Music AppApplication

Consumer app that recognizes, searches and plays music by voice — SoundHound's original music-identification product, distinct from the enterprise OASYS voice-AI platform.

Yandex

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.

No counterpart

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

AI agent

OASYS Front DeskAI agent

Branded voice AI agent (OASYS Front Desk) that picks up 24/7 for a small business or franchise, answering inbound calls so staff can stay focused on the customer in front of them.

Agent platform

OASYSAgent platform

Conversational AI platform (rebranded from Amelia to OASYS) for building, deploying, simulating and operating voice-native AI agents across contact-center, digital-assistant and employee-assist scenarios.

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

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.

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.

Platform

Yandex Cloud 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.