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ElevenLabs vs Gemini Live

ElevenLabs is ahead on repeatable reliability, task completion, infrastructure reliability, tool call accuracy and response time, and Gemini Live on interruption handling.

Last updated Methodology by Luis Ojeda

Verdict

Which to pick

Pick ElevenLabs for reliability across repeated runs (39.02 points higher), completing the caller's task (3.66 points higher), calls that connect and stay up (27.64 points higher), accurate tool calls (0.03 higher) and fast replies (1.77s faster). Pick Gemini Live for handling interruptions (0.01 higher).

Head to head

Every metric, side by side

Bars share one scale across all 8 platforms. The place next to each figure is its rank in the field.

Repeatable reliability

Share of the 82 scenarios that passed on all three runs.

ElevenLabs
69.51%3rd
Gemini Live
30.49%8th

ElevenLabs, 39.02 points higher

Task completion

Calls where the expected outcome was fully reached.

ElevenLabs
91.46%7th
Gemini Live
87.80%8th

ElevenLabs, 3.66 points higher

Infrastructure-clean calls

Calls with no connection, audio or platform failure.

ElevenLabs
100.00%1st
Gemini Live
72.36%8th

ElevenLabs, 27.64 points higher

Tool call accuracy

Mean score for calling the right tool with the right arguments.

ElevenLabs
4.43/56th
Gemini Live
4.40/57th

ElevenLabs, 0.03 higher

Voice tone and clarity

Mean score for how clear and natural the agent sounds.

ElevenLabs
4.47/51st
Gemini Live
Not scored

Not comparable

Interruption handling

Mean score for yielding and recovering when the caller cuts in.

ElevenLabs
4.96/56th
Gemini Live
4.97/53rd

Gemini Live, 0.01 higher

Mean response time

Mean time for the agent to start replying after the caller stops.

ElevenLabs
1.27s1st
Gemini Live
3.05s7th

ElevenLabs, 1.77s faster

246 calls per platform: 82 scenarios, 3 runs each.

On the calls

What each platform ran, and what we saw

ElevenLabs

Strength
Fastest response at 1.27s, highest Voice Tone + Clarity at 4.47/5, and 100% infrastructure-clean calls.
What can be improved
The agent narrated a tool call and continued with an invented result.
STT, LLM and TTS
  • scribe_realtime
  • qwen35-397b-a17b
  • eleven_flash_v2

Gemini Live

Strength
Second-highest repetition score at 4.78/5 across 174 scored calls.
What can be improved
One rerun had no latency evidence and scored 0/5 for both task outcome and tool accuracy.
Speech-to-speech setup
  • reasoning: high
  • hybrid VAD

Frequently asked questions

Is ElevenLabs or Gemini Live more reliable?

ElevenLabs is more reliable, by 39.02 points. ElevenLabs passed 69.51% of the 82 scenarios on all 3 runs and Gemini Live passed 30.49%. A scenario only counts when every run of it passed.

Which responds faster, ElevenLabs or Gemini Live?

ElevenLabs starts replying sooner, 1.77s faster. Mean response time is 1.27s for ElevenLabs and 3.05s for Gemini Live.

Which completes more calls, ElevenLabs or Gemini Live?

ElevenLabs reached the expected outcome on 91.46% of calls and Gemini Live on 87.80%. ElevenLabs is ahead on task completion.

How were ElevenLabs and Gemini Live tested?

Both ran the same Appointment and Medicare agents through the same 82 caller scenarios, 3 times each, with the same evaluators and mock tools. Only the platform and its speech and model components changed.