Voice

Gradium

Low-latency voice AI models for speech synthesis, transcription and translation

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Pricing · Freemium from $13/moHot
The FalcoScan Intel PanelGradium · Voice
Data updated 2 November 2026
Opportunity
High
Band
Saturation
Contested
Band
Wrapper risk
Low
Band
Momentum
Hot
Market trend

Voice AI has a narrow moat on average, from the moat scores of its rated products. What protects Voice AI tools, and the widest moats

The Brief

What Gradium does

Gradium builds audio models for real-time voice applications. Through an API it offers text-to-speech, speech-to-text, speech-to-speech translation, voice cloning and on-device TTS in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Researchers from the Kyutai lab founded it in 2025, and Neil Zeghidour is CEO. Renault is a named customer.

How Gradium compares with its closest alternatives

4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Gradium does. 4 of the 5 offer an API, as Gradium does. Gradium offers a web app. Of the 4 alternatives with platforms on record, 2 offer a web app. Gradium was founded in 2025; the alternatives were founded between 2016 and 2021, 2 of them earlier. Gradium is based in Paris, France; none of the 2 alternatives with a known headquarters is in France. They are in India and the United States.

Market position · Voice

How Gradium compares in Voice

Gradium has high opportunity and sits in the top third of 306 live Voice tools on FalcoScan. Across Voice, the average opportunity score is 66.1 and the average saturation score 41.2. FalcoScan rates Gradium's own market position as contested. 92 of the 306 operating Voice tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 11 shutdowns in the category.

Gradium compared with its closest alternatives
ProductOpportunitySaturationPricingPricing fromFree planAPIPlatformsMomentum
GradiumFounded 2025 · Paris, FranceHighContestedFreemium$13/moYesYesWeb, APIHot
Gnani.aiFounded 2016 · Bengaluru, IndiaHighContestedPaid—NoYesWeb, APIRising
RyloFounded 2021 · New York, United StatesHighContestedFree—YesNoMobileRising
Insanely Fast WhisperModerateContestedFree—YesYesCLIRising
TTS WebUIModerateContestedFree—YesYesWebRising
WhisperS2TModerateContestedFree—YesYesAPIStable

Exact opportunity and saturation scores for all 6 of these, and where each ranks in Voice.

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Gradium exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities
Text To SpeechSpeech To TextSpeech TranslationVoice CloningVoice Design
Industry Verticals
Customer ExperienceHealthcareMediaAutomotive
Tagged

Gradium shows up when builders search for these

text-to-speechspeech-to-textvoice-cloningvoice-agentsapi
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Questions

Gradium: common questions

Is Gradium free?

Gradium has a free tier, with paid plans from $13 a month.

What are the best alternatives to Gradium?

The closest alternatives to Gradium that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Gnani.ai, Rylo, Insanely Fast Whisper, TTS WebUI, and WhisperS2T.

Is Gradium still running?

Yes. As of 2 November 2026, FalcoScan lists Gradium as operating at gradium.ai.

Where is Gradium based?

Gradium is headquartered in Paris, France.

Does Gradium have an API?

Yes. Gradium offers an API.

Who is Gradium for?

Gradium is built for developers and enterprises.

How do I sign in to Gradium?

Sign in on Gradium's own website, gradium.ai. FalcoScan reviews Gradium but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Gradium directly.

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