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ElevenLabs vs GPT Realtime

ElevenLabs is ahead on repeatable reliability, infrastructure reliability, voice tone and clarity and response time, and GPT Realtime on task completion, tool call accuracy and interruption handling.

Last updated Methodology by Luis Ojeda

Verdict

Which to pick

Pick ElevenLabs for reliability across repeated runs (4.88 points higher), calls that connect and stay up (4.47 points higher), how the agent sounds (0.22 higher) and fast replies (0.30s faster). Pick GPT Realtime for completing the caller's task (1.22 points higher), accurate tool calls (0.36 higher) and handling interruptions (0.02 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
GPT Realtime
64.63%5th

ElevenLabs, 4.88 points higher

Task completion

Calls where the expected outcome was fully reached.

ElevenLabs
91.46%7th
GPT Realtime
92.68%6th

GPT Realtime, 1.22 points higher

Infrastructure-clean calls

Calls with no connection, audio or platform failure.

ElevenLabs
100.00%1st
GPT Realtime
95.53%6th

ElevenLabs, 4.47 points higher

Tool call accuracy

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

ElevenLabs
4.43/56th
GPT Realtime
4.79/52nd

GPT Realtime, 0.36 higher

Voice tone and clarity

Mean score for how clear and natural the agent sounds.

ElevenLabs
4.47/51st
GPT Realtime
4.25/54th

ElevenLabs, 0.22 higher

Interruption handling

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

ElevenLabs
4.96/56th
GPT Realtime
4.98/52nd

GPT Realtime, 0.02 higher

Mean response time

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

ElevenLabs
1.27s1st
GPT Realtime
1.58s2nd

ElevenLabs, 0.30s 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

GPT Realtime

Strength
Second-fastest response at 1.58s with 95.53% infrastructure-clean calls.
What can be improved
In a noisy-audio run, a long pause was followed by lost digits and a skipped tool action.
Speech-to-speech setup
  • gpt-realtime-2.1

Frequently asked questions

Is ElevenLabs or GPT Realtime more reliable?

ElevenLabs is more reliable, by 4.88 points. ElevenLabs passed 69.51% of the 82 scenarios on all 3 runs and GPT Realtime passed 64.63%. A scenario only counts when every run of it passed.

Which responds faster, ElevenLabs or GPT Realtime?

ElevenLabs starts replying sooner, 0.30s faster. Mean response time is 1.27s for ElevenLabs and 1.58s for GPT Realtime.

Which completes more calls, ElevenLabs or GPT Realtime?

ElevenLabs reached the expected outcome on 91.46% of calls and GPT Realtime on 92.68%. GPT Realtime is ahead on task completion.

How were ElevenLabs and GPT Realtime 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.