Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview vs Cascade

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview is more reliable, by 8.6 points. Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview handled 24 of 70 real callers well on all three runs, and Cascade 18. A caller only counts when every run of the call scored 80 or more.

On reliability, yes: Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview handles more callers well on every run than the cascade. Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview is ahead on ELO rating, hearing score, turn taking score, speaking score, task handling score, reliability, calls handled well and calls fully resolved, and Cascade on calls where the agent went quiet and median latency. Both ran as the same agent, with the same prompt and tools.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview, by 12.4 points higher. Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview fully resolved 24.8% of calls and Cascade 12.4%. A call counts only when every step the caller needed was done.

No. Cascade starts replying 1.00s sooner at the median. Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview takes 3.06s at the median and 3.86s at p90; Cascade takes 2.06s and 2.49s. Both are measured on the call audio, from the caller finishing to the agent starting to reply.

Cascade, by 0.5 points. The agent went quiet for 10 seconds or more on 7.6% of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview calls and 7.1% of Cascade calls.

There is no verified per-minute rate for Cascade, so cost cannot be compared yet.

Cekura ran both as the whole agent with the same prompt, tools and phone connection. Both took the same 70 recorded real human callers on live calls, three times each. Each call is graded on 25 skills across Hearing, Turn Taking, Task Handling and Speaking, and passes at a score of 80 out of 100. Cascades run the same agent for reference and are never ranked.