Gladia
Based on public pricing signals, xpay verified that Gladia publishes per-hour Starter rates ($0.61 async, $0.75 real-time) with a 10 hr/month no-card free tier, plus public developer documentation at docs.gladia.io. Growth and Enterprise tier rates require a sales conversation, but the Starter tier is fully self-serve via Stripe-backed checkout (per FAQ).
Transparent API pricing — every feature and language included
$0.61/hr Async, $0.75/hr Real-time on Starter
$0
Contact sales
Available
How Gladia scores on the 7 agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
22 / 25
Self-serve checkout
5 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
8 / 10
Unauth automated payment
6 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
71 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Gladia?
Discover price
https://www.gladia.io/pricing — Starter per-hour rates visibleSelect a plan
Three tiers (Starter, Growth, Enterprise) clearly distinguishedPay per task
Per-hour billing at $0.61/hr async on Starter at https://www.gladia.io/pricingAvoid a sales call
Starter self-serve via Stripe; Growth and Enterprise both sales-ledAPI docs without auth
https://docs.gladia.io — publicEstimate cost upfront
Per-hour rate + concurrency limits disclosed at https://www.gladia.io/pricingPros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Per-unit billing is published, so an agent can budget for a single task before committing.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- Per-unit rate is concrete enough that an agent can model expected spend before issuing a request.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- Some tiers are sales-led; the highest-capacity surfaces are not self-serve.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Gladia could lift its score
Gladia is already Verified. Two missing points: (1) publish /.well-known/ai-pricing.json; (2) expose Growth tier rates publicly (or open an anonymous PPU path) so the middle tier is also agent-discoverable. Both lift to 100/100.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Transparent API pricing — every feature and language included |
| tier_count | 3 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 0 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | 10 hrs/month free, no credit card |
| per_unit_price | $0.61/hr Async, $0.75/hr Real-time on Starter |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 1 |
| sales_only_tiers | 2 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://docs.gladia.io |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
Gladia
71
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Speech & Transcription
Transparent API pricing — every feature and language included
3
Yes
10 hrs/month free, no credit card
Free
$0.61/hr Async, $0.75/hr Real-time on Starter
1 / 2
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-03