Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview

1062

ELO

3rd of 12

34.3%

Pass³

3rd of 12

3.06s

Latency

12th of 12

$0.070

Cost/Min

3rd of 8

ELO Rating vs. Latency P50

Higher wins more head-to-head calls (1000 = average); further left replies faster

Best quadrant
ELO Rating
Median latency (s)

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview Against Every Other Model

Each model took the same recorded human callers on live calls. Pick a measure to see where Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview ranks.

Rating from head-to-head calls: on every call each pair of models is compared, the better call wins. 1000 is the average model. Higher is better.

#ModelELO Rating
  1. 01Grok Voice 3.01154
  2. 02GPT-Live 1 + GPT-6 Sol1069
  3. 03Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview1062
  4. 04GPT Realtime 2.11054
  5. 05Grok Voice Think Fast 2.01030
  6. 06Phonic-11030
  7. 07Azure Realtime1017
  8. 08Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking1016
  9. 09Gemini 3.8 Live968
  10. 10GPT Realtime 2.1 Mini921
  11. 11Deepslate Opal847
  12. 12Amazon Nova 2 Sonic832
  • refCascade955

Where Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview Is Strong and Weak

Pick a skill family. The shape is this model on every skill in it; the dashed line is the median of the other models.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live PreviewMedian of the other models
68Hearing Score4th of 12+2 vs median
SkillScore · vs median
  • Entity Extraction Accuracy50%+18
  • Low-Confidence Confirmation34%+15
  • Prosodic Cue Understanding86%+14
  • Side-Speech Rejection100%+5
  • Degraded-Channel Robustness72%−3
  • Waiting Through Hold84%−3
  • Emotion Recognition83%−4
  • Multi-Speaker Handling34%−9

Share of calls where the skill was needed and handled, strongest first. Hover a point on the chart for both values.

Example Calls from Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview

Banking and healthcare callers. Each shows what the caller needed, what made the call hard, and how the model handled it.

First prenatal visit

Healthcare
Upset callerTalks over the agentNeeds a personAsks for a number

Finished 0 of 1 steps

Handled well: Emotion Recognition, Overlapping-Speech Recovery, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance

Struggled with: Human Handoff

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Urgent visit for a feverish child

Healthcare
Background voicesSlow systemAsks to holdNeeds consent

Finished the task

Handled well: Side-Speech Rejection, Mid-Utterance Pause Tolerance, Consent Verification

Struggled with: Tool-Latency Handling

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Reschedule a specialist visit

Healthcare
Bad connectionSeveral peopleTalks over the agentChanges their mind

Finished 6 of 7 steps

Handled well: Multi-Speaker Handling, Overlapping-Speech Recovery, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance

Struggled with: Degraded-Channel Robustness, Correction Handling

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Update insurance details

Healthcare
Spells names and numbersBad connectionInterruptsNeeds consent

Finished 3 of 6 steps

Handled well: Entity Extraction Accuracy, Degraded-Channel Robustness, Backchannel vs Barge-in Detection

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Loan payoff quote

Banking
Hesitant callerAsks to holdNeeds consentCancels

Finished 6 of 7 steps

Handled well: Prosodic Cue Understanding, Mid-Utterance Pause Tolerance, Consent Verification

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Change a mortgage payment date

Banking
Hold musicInterruptsNeeds consentAsks for a number

Finished 3 of 6 steps

Handled well: Waiting Through Hold, Backchannel vs Barge-in Detection, Consent Verification

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Business loan documents

Banking
Slow systemAsks to holdNeeds consent

Finished 2 of 3 steps

Handled well: Mid-Utterance Pause Tolerance, Consent Verification, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance

Struggled with: Tool-Latency Handling, Premature-Response Avoidance

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Request a medical records transfer

Healthcare
Slow systemNeeds consent

Finished 2 of 5 steps

Handled well: Consent Verification, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance, TTS Text Normalization

Struggled with: Tool-Latency Handling, Hallucinated-Success Avoidance

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Payment plan for missed loan payments

Banking
Hesitant callerSeveral peoplePauses mid-sentenceAsks for a number

Finished 2 of 6 steps

Handled well: Prosodic Cue Understanding, Endpointing, Premature-Response Avoidance

Struggled with: Multi-Speaker Handling

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Remove a sold car from a policy

Banking
Background voicesInterruptsChanges their mindNeeds consent

Finished the task

Handled well: Side-Speech Rejection, Backchannel vs Barge-in Detection, Correction Handling

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Latency at P50, P90 and P95

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview starts replying in 3.06s on a typical turn and 4.07s on the slowest turn in twenty, 12th fastest of 12 at the median.

ModelP50P90P95
  • Cascade
    2.06s2.49s2.60s
Seconds from the caller finishing to the agent replying. The bar is the typical turn, P50.

How Much Audio Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview Was Tested On

210 live calls: 70 scenarios, each run three times. The median call ran 4:28.

Live calls
210
Scenarios
70
Banking calls
105
Healthcare calls
105
Replies per call
14.2
Median call
4:28

70 scenarios, the same for every model.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview FAQ

  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview has an ELO rating of 1062, 3rd of 12 ranked models. It passed 24 of 70 callers on all three runs, a Pass³ of 34.3%.

  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview starts replying 3.06s after the caller finishes at P50, 3.86s at P90 and 4.07s at P95: 12th fastest of 12 at P50, measured on the call audio.

  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview falls furthest behind on Tool Latency and Errors: 65%, against a median of 75%.

  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview has a task completion rate of 24.8%, 5th of 12. A call counts only when every step the caller needed was done.

  • $0.070 per minute of call at Google's published rates, 3rd cheapest of 8 priced models. Averaged over the calls with a usage record.

  • Cekura ran Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview as the whole agent with the same prompt, tools and phone connection as every other model. It took the same 70 recorded real human callers on live calls, three times each (210 calls), and each call was graded on 25 skills across Hearing, Turn Taking, Task Handling and Speaking.

Test your voice agent the same way.

Cekura runs these simulated calls on your agent and scores every one.