Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Beats GPT-Live-1 On Voice At A Fraction Of The Price

Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Beats GPT-Live-1 On Voice At A Fraction Of The Price

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Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Beats GPT-Live-1 On Voice At A Fraction Of The Price

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Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking tops the Speech to Speech Index at 82.6, edging GPT-Live-1 Astra, while the standard 3.8 Live costs a seventh of OpenAI's price per hour of audio.

  • 01. Reasons while speaking, runs tools in the background, 97 languages with mid-sentence switching, live visual input
  • 02. 82.6 Speech to Speech Index vs GPT-Live-1 Astra 81.5; $0.84 per input-audio hour vs $5.83; in the Gemini API and AI Studio now
Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, voice-first models that reason and speak at the same time, run tools and API calls in the background without breaking the conversation, switch between 97 languages mid-sentence and take live visual input. Extended Thinking scores 82.6 on Artificial Analysis's Speech to Speech Index against GPT-Live-1 Astra's 81.5 and Grok Voice Think Fast's 81.3, and 3.8 Live costs 84 cents per hour of input audio against $5.83 for GPT-Live-1. Available now in the Gemini API and AI Studio.