Pick Gladia if
voice and media teams who will spend the €50 starter credits (~312 async hours on Solaria-3) and then top up a prepaid wallet, not a team looking for a $20 meeting-notes seat.
Read the Gladia pageGladia vs Pipecat
Our take
Pick Gladia if voice and media teams who will spend the €50 starter credits (~312 async hours on Solaria-3) and then top up a prepaid wallet, not a team looking for a $20 meeting-notes seat. Pick Pipecat if voice engineers who will run OSS for $0 (you pay Deepgram / OpenAI / Cartesia) and only open Cloud when they want pipecat cloud deploy instead of a box.
Best for
Gladia Hours of audio billed in euros
Pipecat Orchestrate providers you already pay
Free plan
Gladia No free plan
Pipecat $0 · you pay the providers you plug in
Lowest paid
Gladia Self-serve async €0.16
Pipecat Transport $0.001
Next step up
Gladia Self-serve real-time €0.68
Pipecat Krisp VIVA $0.0015
Coding agent
Gladia
Pipecat Agent + Tab inside the editor
Runs where
Gladia
Pipecat Hosted
Watch out
Gladia €50 is a one-time grant
Pipecat OSS is $0
Last checked
Gladia 2026-10-22 · gladia.io/pricing
Pipecat 2026-10-22 · daily.co/pricing/pipecat-cloud
Which one, then?
Pick Pipecat if
voice engineers who will run OSS for $0 (you pay Deepgram / OpenAI / Cartesia) and only open Cloud when they want pipecat cloud deploy instead of a box.
Read the Pipecat page