Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0

1030

ELO

5th of 12

28.6%

Pass³

7th of 12

1.44s

Latency

1st of 12

$0.080

Cost/Min

5th 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)

Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 Against Every Other Model

Each model took the same recorded human callers on live calls. Pick a measure to see where Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 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 Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 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.

Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0Median of the other models
66Hearing Score7th of 120 vs median
SkillScore · vs median
  • Prosodic Cue Understanding82%+10
  • Degraded-Channel Robustness83%+8
  • Entity Extraction Accuracy38%+5
  • Waiting Through Hold87%+3
  • Low-Confidence Confirmation19%−1
  • Multi-Speaker Handling42%−2
  • Emotion Recognition84%−2
  • Side-Speech Rejection95%−3

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

Example Calls from Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0

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 callerSeveral peopleTalks over the agentSlow system

Finished 3 of 6 steps

Handled well: Emotion Recognition, Overlapping-Speech Recovery, Tool-Latency Handling

Struggled with: Multi-Speaker Handling, Human Handoff, Cancellation Handling

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Urgent visit for a feverish child

Healthcare
Background voicesSlow systemAsks to holdAsks for a number

Finished 6 of 7 steps

Handled well: Side-Speech Rejection, Tool-Latency Handling, Mid-Utterance Pause Tolerance

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Reschedule a specialist visit

Healthcare
Bad connectionSeveral peopleTalks over the agentChanges their mind

Finished the task

Handled well: Degraded-Channel Robustness, Multi-Speaker Handling, Overlapping-Speech Recovery

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Update insurance details

Healthcare
Spells names and numbersBad connectionNeeds consent

Finished 2 of 3 steps

Handled well: Degraded-Channel Robustness, Consent Verification, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance

Struggled with: Entity Extraction Accuracy

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Loan payoff quote

Banking
Noisy lineHesitant callerAsks to holdNeeds consent

Finished 4 of 6 steps

Handled well: Prosodic Cue Understanding, Mid-Utterance Pause Tolerance, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance

Struggled with: Low-Confidence Confirmation, Consent Verification

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Change a mortgage payment date

Banking
Hold musicSeveral peopleNeeds consent

Finished the task

Handled well: Waiting Through Hold, Multi-Speaker Handling, Consent Verification

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Business loan documents

Banking
Slow systemAsks to holdNeeds consentAsks for a number

Finished 2 of 3 steps

Handled well: Tool-Latency Handling, Consent Verification, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance

Struggled with: Mid-Utterance Pause Tolerance, Premature-Response Avoidance, Numeric Read-back

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Request a medical records transfer

Healthcare
Slow systemNeeds consentAsks for a number

Finished 1 of 4 steps

Handled well: Tool-Latency Handling, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance, Hallucinated-Success Avoidance

Struggled with: Consent Verification

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Payment plan for missed loan payments

Banking
Hesitant callerSeveral peoplePauses mid-sentenceNeeds consent

Finished 3 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
Noisy lineInterruptsSystem errorAsks for a number

Finished 6 of 7 steps

Handled well: Backchannel vs Barge-in Detection, Tool Error Handling, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance

Struggled with: Low-Confidence Confirmation

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Latency at P50, P90 and P95

Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 starts replying in 1.44s on a typical turn and 2.04s on the slowest turn in twenty, 1st 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 Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 Was Tested On

210 live calls: 70 scenarios, each run three times. The median call ran 3:18.

Live calls
210
Scenarios
70
Banking calls
105
Healthcare calls
105
Replies per call
14.4
Median call
3:18

70 scenarios, the same for every model.

Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 FAQ

  • Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 has an ELO rating of 1030, 5th of 12 ranked models. It passed 20 of 70 callers on all three runs, a Pass³ of 28.6%.

  • Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 starts replying 1.44s after the caller finishes at P50, 1.83s at P90 and 2.04s at P95: 1st fastest of 12 at P50, measured on the call audio.

  • Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 falls furthest behind on Corrections and Changes: 48%, against a median of 61%.

  • Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 has a task completion rate of 22.9%, 7th of 12. A call counts only when every step the caller needed was done.

  • $0.080 per minute of call at xAI's published rates, 5th cheapest of 8 priced models. Excludes a text-input charge the vendor lists without a unit.

  • Cekura ran Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 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.

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