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- Free allowance
- 'New accounts get EUR 50 in free credits, valid for one year.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe wallet is one year: unused credit is lost 12 months after signup, so a 312-hour allowance is a 12-month budget and not a reserve; a project that starts in month 11 gets one month of transcription.
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | 'New accounts get EUR 50 in free credits, valid for one year. That's roughly 312 hours of async transcription on solaria-3, 185 hours on solaria-1, or 73 hours of real-time.' The amount is printed with a euro sign on the vendor page and is written here as EUR 50. The price card is 'Starts at EUR 0.16/hour', with async tiers from EUR 0.27 an hour at 0 to 100 hours down to EUR 0.21 at 10,000+ hours, and real-time from EUR 0.16 to EUR 0.12. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) the wallet is one year: unused credit is lost 12 months after signup, so a 312-hour allowance is a 12-month budget and not a reserve; a project that starts in month 11 gets one month of transcription. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Retention | the wallet is one year: unused credit is lost 12 months after signup, so a 312-hour allowance is a 12-month budget and not a reserve; a project that starts in month 11 gets one month of transcription. |
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| Interface | rest REST API at api.gladia.io (POST /v2/pre-recorded starts a job), plus WebSockets for live transcription and the official SDKs, documented. |
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| Tooling | Official SDKs: JavaScript/TypeScript (npm @gladiaio/sdk) and Python (pip gladiaio-sdk); the REST API is used directly otherwise; live transcription uses WebSockets. |
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| Composes with | 312 hours of async transcription for free is the cheapest per-hour speech-to-text lane found, and it composes with a free object store for the audio and a free runner for the upload loop. What breaks: the one-year clock, and the 73-hour real-time figure, which is a quarter of the async allowance because real-time bills the connection rather than the audio. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | These are inference credits, not general compute. This is a French vendor billing in EUR, so the figure is EUR 50 and not a converted USD number. Not established: whether signup demands a card; the page offers 'Start with EUR 50 free credits' with a direct app link and states no card requirement, but the form was not opened. Model training is 'Opt-in by default (free opt-out anytime)' on the standard tier and 'Opted out by default' on the enterprise column, which changes what the same 50 EUR buys in privacy terms rather than in hours. |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.gladia.io/pricing | 'New accounts get EUR 50 in free credits, valid for one year. That's roughly 312 hours of async transcription on solaria-3, 185 hours on solaria-1, or 73 hours of real-time', quoted from the FAQ, euro sign written as EUR |
| 2026-10-22 | www.gladia.io/pricing | the page header prints 'Credit-based speech-to-text API pricing with no subscription ... Start with EUR 50 free', and the price block 'Starts at EUR 0.16/hour', quoted with the euro sign written as EUR |
| 2026-10-22 | www.gladia.io/pricing | the async tier table prints '0 - 100 hours EUR 0.27/hr' for the standard column and 'EUR 0.16/hr' for the volume column, quoted with the euro sign written as EUR; top-up credits above EUR 1,000 'never expire' |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.gladia.io/chapters/how-to-use-gladia/sdk.md | official SDKs exist; jobs and live WebSockets are offered |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.gladia.io/api-reference/v2/pre-recorded/init | the OpenAPI definition of the pre-recorded endpoint is served from api.gladia.io |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "credit-large-enough-for-real-workload","free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 4
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed