Descript records 3,267,817 monthly visits with +11.1% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Paid pricing. Gladia records 232,451 monthly visits with +6.4% growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Edit video and podcasts by editing text
Speech-to-text and audio intelligence API for production voice products
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | descript.com | gladia.io |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Paid | Freemium, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 3.27M (3,267,817) | 232.45K (232,451) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +326.91K (+11.1%) | +13.91K (+6.4%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (38.9%) | 🇧🇷 Brazil (22.1%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.65M | 128.52K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Edit video and podcasts by editing text
Edit audio and video by deleting, rearranging or retyping words in the automatic transcript, with a full multitrack timeline available when you need it.
Describe the edit you want in plain language and let the AI assistant assemble a tight cut, add clips and handle repetitive production work.
Remove background noise, level out voices, and fix misread lines with Regenerate Speech using a clone of your own voice.
Generate subtitles and transcripts in a click, translate video into other languages, and reformat long recordings into shareable vertical clips.
Speech-to-text and audio intelligence API for production voice products
Stream audio over WebSocket for live captioning or submit files via REST for batch transcription, supporting MP3, WAV, FLAC, Opus, and most other formats.
Automatic, accent-sensitive language detection across 100+ languages, including code-switching for conversations that move between languages mid-sentence.
Speaker diarization, named entity recognition, PII redaction, sentiment analysis, and summarization, each billed only when you enable it.
Feed transcripts directly into a large language model, either Gladia-hosted or a model you bring yourself (BYOM), to generate summaries and structured outputs.
SpecialistProvides Whisper via API for robust speech-to-text, but lacks specialized real-time streaming audio intelligence pipelines.
SpecialistProvides Whisper via API for robust speech-to-text, but lacks specialized real-time streaming audio intelligence pipelines.
Provides extensive template and timeline effects with strong AI tools, but lacks Descript's seamless word-level script editing.
Provides extensive template and timeline effects with strong AI tools, but lacks Descript's seamless word-level script editing.
SpecialistProvides industry-leading voice cloning and text-to-speech generation, but does not offer media recording or timeline editing.
SpecialistProvides industry-leading voice cloning and text-to-speech generation, but does not offer media recording or timeline editing.
SpecialistExcels at browser-based voice enhancement and transcription, but offers fewer robust video editing and timeline features.
SpecialistExcels at browser-based voice enhancement and transcription, but offers fewer robust video editing and timeline features.
Delivers powerful browser-based video editing and auto-subtitling, though lacking Descript's document-style text editing model.
Delivers powerful browser-based video editing and auto-subtitling, though lacking Descript's document-style text editing model.
Focuses on text-to-video generation and agentic editing, whereas Descript centers on editing recorded audio and video.
Focuses on text-to-video generation and agentic editing, whereas Descript centers on editing recorded audio and video.
Offers robust online collaborative video editing and AI tools, but lacks deep script-based transcript manipulation.
Offers robust online collaborative video editing and AI tools, but lacks deep script-based transcript manipulation.
SpecialistProvides highly accurate transcription and translation across numerous languages, but lacks creative video editing suites.
SpecialistProvides highly accurate transcription and translation across numerous languages, but lacks creative video editing suites.
Offers superior local 4K multi-track recording for remote podcasts, but lacks Descript's text-based timeline editing workflow.
Offers superior local 4K multi-track recording for remote podcasts, but lacks Descript's text-based timeline editing workflow.
Specializes in ultra-low latency streaming voice infrastructure, though heavily optimized for voice synthesis.
Specializes in ultra-low latency streaming voice infrastructure, though heavily optimized for voice synthesis.
SpecialistSpecializes in automatically slicing long-form video into viral short clips, but lacks full podcast production depth.
SpecialistSpecializes in automatically slicing long-form video into viral short clips, but lacks full podcast production depth.
SpecialistAutomates the removal of filler words and silences, but does not provide full video timeline editing capabilities.
SpecialistAutomates the removal of filler words and silences, but does not provide full video timeline editing capabilities.
