Gladia
Gladia publishes a pricing page with 3 discoverable plan tier(s). No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. Self-serve signup exists alongside a sales-led / custom tier. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall. A free or freemium tier is offered.
Transparent API pricing
$0
Higher volume
How Gladia scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
0 / 25
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
8 / 10
Unauth automated payment
3 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
56 / 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
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Transparent API pricing |
| tier_count | 3 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | null |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | true |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 2 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://docs.gladia.io/chapters/introduction |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | null |
| usage_headline_present | false |
| custom_tier_present | true |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":true,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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56
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Speech Transcription
Transparent API pricing
3
Yes
Sales-led
2 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-03
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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