Migrating from AWS Transcribe to Gladia: a step-by-step switching guide

Published September 11, 2026, this migration guide presents Gladia as an alternative to AWS Transcribe, arguing that teams can replace S3 staging, IAM setup, transcription-job polling, and result retrieval with direct API submissions and webhook callbacks. It maps AWS features such as batch and real-time transcription, diarization, channel identification, vocabulary customization, PII redaction, translation, sentiment analysis, timestamps, and language detection to Gladia API parameters, while noting that diarization is asynchronous only and PII and entity recognition require explicit activation. The guide promotes Solaria-3 for noisy European business audio and Solaria-1 for real-time, multilingual, and code-switching workflows, citing internal and comparative benchmark claims. It contrasts AWS’s stated base transcription rate of $1.44 per hour with Gladia’s advertised Starter and Growth rates, while acknowledging AWS volume discounts and plan-specific data-training policies. Recommended migration steps include auditing current usage, testing representative audio with both providers, mapping request schemas, conducting a gradual canary rollout, monitoring accuracy, latency, errors, and webhook delivery, and retiring AWS-specific infrastructure only after validation.

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