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Gemini 3.8 Live vs Grok Voice 3.0

Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 1 task where both are listed: they share a tier in 1.

Gemini 3.8 Live

Google's native-audio Gemini models for low-latency voice agents in the Live API, with an Extended Thinking variant.

Vendor
Google
Weights
Closed: API and apps only
Released
Sep 2026
API price
$0.01 per minute of audio (Artificial Analysis 'Cost per Hour of Input Audio' for Gemini 3.8 Live, Google ($0.841/hour: cost of its Big Bench Audio run normalised to input-audio length) divided by 60.)
License
proprietary
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Gemini 3.8 Live

Grok Voice 3.0

xAI's speech-to-speech models for real-time voice agents with tool use, served through its Realtime-compatible API.

Vendor
xAI
Weights
Closed: API and apps only
Released
14 Oct 2026
API price
$0.08 per minute of audio (Official realtime speech-to-speech price for grok-voice-latest.)
License
proprietary
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Grok Voice 3.0

Task by task

TaskGemini 3.8 LiveGrok Voice 3.0Higher tier
Voice agents
Models
S1,088 on Artificial Analysis Speech Agent Arena (models) · CloudS1,070 on Artificial Analysis Speech Agent Arena (models) · CloudSame tier

A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.

Same benchmark, both results

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 LiveGrok Voice 3.0Snapshot
Artificial Analysis Big Bench Audio (speech reasoning)
Accuracy on Big Bench Audio: spoken reasoning questions answered in audio (speech in, speech out), higher is better
97.7%98.5%18 Oct 2026
Artificial Analysis Speech Agent Arena (models)
Elo from blind pairwise votes on live voice-agent conversations (overall slice; GPT-Realtime-1.5 anchored at 1000), higher is better
1,0881,07018 Oct 2026
Artificial Analysis Speech to Speech Index
AA-Speech to Speech Index: weighted average of speech reasoning (Big Bench Audio), agentic performance (tau-Voice), arena preference and task success rate, higher is better
838718 Oct 2026