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Gladia: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Gladia is a French company that provides an API for speech-to-text and audio intelligence. Developers use it to transcribe recordings, stream live audio over WebSocket and enrich transcripts, through one API with SDKs for Python and Node.js. A web playground is also available for testing. The service is delivered as a cloud API, and the sources reviewed mention no on-premise or open-source edition.

The legal notice names GLADIA SAS as the operator, with an address in Roubaix and registration in the Lille Métropole trade register. Shareholders are not named on the website. The security page states that services run on third-party cloud providers and that, by default, a European provider based in France is used to respect GDPR constraints, with other geographies offered on request. Data is stored for up to twelve months by default. For a European organisation this is an EU-based provider, but its subprocessors and data processing agreement should be checked before use.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryAI
TypeProduct
Websitegladia.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Gladia

The European alternatives to Gladia come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Gladia

Gladia is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Gladia scores best on data residency.

Gladia is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Gladia together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Gladia?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Gladia include Aleph Alpha, Almato and Almawave. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Gladia?

Our list of EU alternatives to Gladia is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Gladia GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Gladia is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Gladia an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 10, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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