Gladia gives new accounts €50 in free speech-to-text credits
€50 in free credits for new accounts, valid for one year
New Gladia accounts get €50 in free credits, valid for one year. That's roughly 312 hours of async transcription on Solaria-3, or about 73 hours of real-time transcription.
- Eligible plans
- Self-serve pay-as-you-go
- Eligibility
- New Gladia accounts
- Benefit duration
- Valid for one year
- Renewal terms
- After the credits run out, top up your prepaid wallet and keep paying as you go. No subscription to cancel.
The briefing
Gladia is a multilingual voice AI API with real-time and async speech-to-text, plus add-ons such as summarization, translation and sentiment analysis. Every new account starts with €50 in free credits, no top-up needed.
What you get
- €50 in free credits, valid for one year.
- That covers roughly 312 hours of async transcription on Solaria-3, about 185 hours on Solaria-1, or about 73 hours of real-time transcription.
- Self-serve accounts run up to 25 concurrent async jobs and 30 real-time sessions, and Solaria-1 supports 100+ languages.
After the credits
Gladia runs on a prepaid credit wallet with no subscription, so there's nothing to cancel. Async transcription on Solaria-3 starts at €0.16 an hour and real-time costs €0.68 an hour, with automatic volume discounts. Top-ups of €1,000 or more earn 10% to 20% in bonus credits.
How to claim
- Sign up on the Gladia sign-up page.
- Create an API key in the dashboard and follow the Gladia docs to upload audio or connect a live stream.
See Gladia pricing for full rates. Early-stage startups can also apply to Gladia Startup Studio for $3,000 in credits.
Some details are based on StartupPerks (CC BY 4.0).
