From a valuation standpoint, GitLab is the much cheaper stock, trading at a price-to-sales (P/S) multiple of 9.9 times 2025 analyst estimates versus over 23.5 times for SoundHound. It is also worth remembering that GitLab's gross margins are much higher than SoundHound's.

The company's share price was up 11% as of 11 a.m. ET and had been up as much as 14.9% earlier in the daily session. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 index was up 1.6% and the Nasdaq Composite index was up 2.1%.

Shares of voice artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider SoundHound AI (SOUN) have dropped 30% in the year-to-date. Further, SOUN stock has lost 48.8% of its value from its 52-week high of $24.

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) stock was one of the market's biggest winners in 2024. The company's share price skyrocketed 835.8% across last year's trading, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.