Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

832

ELO

12th of 12

11.4%

Pass³

12th of 12

2.76s

Latency

11th of 12

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)

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic Against Every Other Model

Each model took the same recorded human callers on live calls. Pick a measure to see where Amazon Nova 2 Sonic 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 Amazon Nova 2 Sonic 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.

Amazon Nova 2 SonicMedian of the other models
46Hearing Score12th of 12−20 vs median
SkillScore · vs median
  • Degraded-Channel Robustness68%−7
  • Emotion Recognition79%−8
  • Side-Speech Rejection89%−8
  • Low-Confidence Confirmation0%−20
  • Prosodic Cue Understanding56%−22
  • Multi-Speaker Handling19%−24
  • Entity Extraction Accuracy5%−32
  • Waiting Through Hold54%−33

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

Example Calls from Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

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 2 of 6 steps

Handled well: Emotion Recognition, Overlapping-Speech Recovery, Consent Verification

Struggled with: Multi-Speaker Handling, Tool-Latency Handling, 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, 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 4 of 7 steps

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

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Change a mortgage payment date

Banking
Hold musicSeveral peopleInterruptsNeeds a person

Finished 2 of 7 steps

Handled well: Waiting Through Hold, Backchannel vs Barge-in Detection, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance

Struggled with: Multi-Speaker Handling, Human Handoff, Consent Verification

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Business loan documents

Banking
Slow systemAsks to holdNeeds consentAsks for a number

Finished 1 of 3 steps

Handled well: Mid-Utterance Pause Tolerance, Hallucinated-Success Avoidance, Numeric Read-back

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

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Request a medical records transfer

Healthcare
Slow systemNeeds consentCancels

Finished 2 of 5 steps

Handled well: Cancellation Handling, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance, TTS Text Normalization

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

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Payment plan for missed loan payments

Banking
Pauses mid-sentence

Finished 0 of 1 steps

Handled well: Endpointing, Premature-Response Avoidance, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance

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Remove a sold car from a policy

Banking
Noisy lineInterruptsNeeds consentAsks for a number

Finished 3 of 7 steps

Handled well: Backchannel vs Barge-in Detection, Redundant Re-prompt Avoidance, Hallucinated-Success Avoidance

Struggled with: Low-Confidence Confirmation, Consent Verification

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Latency at P50, P90 and P95

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic starts replying in 2.76s on a typical turn and 3.62s on the slowest turn in twenty, 11th 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 Amazon Nova 2 Sonic Was Tested On

210 live calls: 70 scenarios, each run three times. The median call ran 6:28.

Live calls
210
Scenarios
70
Banking calls
105
Healthcare calls
105
Replies per call
15.4
Median call
6:28

70 scenarios, the same for every model.

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic FAQ

  • Amazon Nova 2 Sonic has an ELO rating of 832, 12th of 12 ranked models. It passed 8 of 70 callers on all three runs, a Pass³ of 11.4%.

  • Amazon Nova 2 Sonic starts replying 2.76s after the caller finishes at P50, 3.40s at P90 and 3.62s at P95: 11th fastest of 12 at P50, measured on the call audio.

  • Amazon Nova 2 Sonic falls furthest behind on Tool Latency and Errors: 31%, against a median of 75%.

  • Amazon Nova 2 Sonic has a task completion rate of 13.8%, 10th of 12. A call counts only when every step the caller needed was done.

  • There is no verified per-minute rate for Amazon Nova 2 Sonic, so it is left out of the cost ranking.

  • Cekura ran Amazon Nova 2 Sonic 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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