Phonic 1 speech-to-speech priced at $4.20/hour, 2.6x cheaper than GPT-Realtime-2.1 High

ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-30

Artificial Analysis added Phonic 1 (High) to its Speech to Speech leaderboard with full pricing comparisons. At $4.20 per hour of input audio ($0.07/min), Phonic 1 undercuts Grok Voice 3.0 ($4.80), GPT-Live-1 Sol-low ($4.47) and GPT-Live-1 Astra-medium ($5.83), sits above Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking High ($3.50), and is 2.6x cheaper than GPT-Realtime-2.1 High ($10.75). The index weights speech reasoning (Big Bench Audio), agentic performance (τ-Voice), Arena preference, and task success rate; methodology is public.

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