PolyAI is ahead on repeatable reliability, task completion, infrastructure reliability, tool call accuracy, interruption handling and response time, and Smallest AI on voice tone and clarity.

PolyAI ranked 1 of 10 · Smallest AI ranked 9 of 10

Last updated Methodology by Luis Ojeda

Which to pick

Pick PolyAI for reliability across repeated runs (31.70 points higher), completing the caller's task (4.47 points higher), calls that connect and stay up (2.85 points higher), accurate tool calls (0.32 higher), handling interruptions (0.08 higher) and fast replies (0.25s faster). Pick Smallest AI for how the agent sounds (0.40 higher).

Every metric, side by side

Bars share one scale across all 10 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.

PolyAI
87.80%1st
Smallest AI
56.10%9th

PolyAI, 31.70 points higher

Task completion

Calls where the expected outcome was fully reached.

PolyAI
98.78%1st
Smallest AI
94.31%5th

PolyAI, 4.47 points higher

Infrastructure-clean calls

Calls with no connection, audio or platform failure.

PolyAI
99.19%3rd
Smallest AI
96.34%7th

PolyAI, 2.85 points higher

Tool call accuracy

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

PolyAI
4.90/51st
Smallest AI
4.58/56th

PolyAI, 0.32 higher

Voice tone and clarity

Mean score for how clear and natural the agent sounds.

PolyAI
3.97/58th
Smallest AI
4.37/52nd

Smallest AI, 0.40 higher

Interruption handling

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

PolyAI
4.99/52nd
Smallest AI
4.91/58th

PolyAI, 0.08 higher

Mean response time

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

PolyAI
2.46s6th
Smallest AI
2.71s8th

PolyAI, 0.25s faster

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

What each platform ran, and what we saw

PolyAI

Strength
Leads repeatable reliability at 87.80% pass³ and task completion at 98.78% across all 246 calls.
What can be improved
Mean response time is 2.46s and voice tone and clarity is 3.97/5. Repetition and call termination were not scored; tool accuracy covers 237 calls and response time covers 245.
STT, LLM and TTS
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Smallest AI

Strength
94.31% task completion across all 246 calls, and 62.71% pass³ on the Appointment suite (37 of 59 scenarios).
What can be improved
Atoms tool parameters cannot be arrays, so Medicare list arguments arrive as comma-separated text; its tool accuracy reads that text as a list. With the standard check it scores 45.12% pass³.
STT, LLM and TTS
  • pulse
  • electron
  • waves_lightning_v3_1_pro (chelsea)

PolyAI vs Smallest AI FAQ

  • PolyAI is more reliable, by 31.70 points. PolyAI passed 87.80% of the 82 scenarios on all 3 runs and Smallest AI passed 56.10%. A scenario only counts when every run of it passed.

  • PolyAI starts replying sooner, 0.25s faster. Mean response time is 2.46s for PolyAI and 2.71s for Smallest AI.

  • PolyAI reached the expected outcome on 98.78% of calls and Smallest AI on 94.31%. PolyAI is ahead on task completion.

  • 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.

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