Phonic 1 Costs $4.20/Hour of Input Audio, Undercutting Grok and Most GPT-Live Tiers
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-30
Artificial Analysis price comparison: Phonic 1 (High) costs $4.20 per hour of input audio ($0.07/min) — below Grok Voice 3.0 ($4.80), GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) ($4.47) and GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) ($5.83), above Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) at $3.50, and roughly 2.6x cheaper than GPT-Realtime-2.1 High ($10.75). Full cost-per-hour chart across speech models included.
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