# Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP vs Groq Speech-to-Text (slim)

> Groq Speech-to-Text scores 71.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP's 69.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do speech stt. Category scores…

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Groq Speech-to-Text scores 71.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP's 69.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do speech stt.

- Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP: B 69.5, rank #171 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gladia-stt.min.md
- Groq Speech-to-Text: BB 71.8, rank #113 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.min.md
- Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP, good for Multilingual meetings and calls where translation, summaries and NER are wanted in one price, and for teams who want an MCP server. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 95 against 58; Maintenance & community, 80 against 68. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Groq Speech-to-Text, good for Suited to cheap, fast transcription of recorded files in many languages, and to agents that already hold a Groq key or use an OpenAI-compatible client. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 60; Security & auth, 79 against 70; Transparency & trust, 85 against 64. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.

| Category | Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP | Groq Speech-to-Text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 95 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 79 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 68 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 85 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP | Groq Speech-to-Text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Gladia | Groq |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.gladia.io/v2` | `https://api.groq.com/openai/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs and MCP server) | Proprietary hosted service under the Groq Services Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0 and the Whisper weights are published by OpenAI on Hugging Face |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-06-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-11-12 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 4 stars, 4.8k npm/wk, 126k PyPI/wk | 621 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |