Gemini 3.8 Live costs 1.38 dollars an hour. GPT-Live-1 lands closer to 5.
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Gemini 3.8 Live costs 1.38 dollars an hour. GPT-Live-1 lands closer to 5.
Gemini 3.8 Live vs GPT-Live-1 pricing compared. Google charges about 1.38 dollars per hour of voice. The OpenAI split architecture lands at 4.47 to 5.83.
Key Takeaways
- Gemini 3.8 Live bills 0.005 dollars per minute of audio in and 0.018 per minute out, roughly 1.38 dollars an hour.
- GPT-Live-1 quotes 0.05 dollars per minute, but a separate backend reasoning model is billed on top, landing the all in cost between 4.47 and 5.83 dollars an hour.
- The widely quoted 0.798 second GPT-Live-1 latency comes from Full Duplex Bench, not API time to first audio, which runs 1.24 to 1.34 seconds.
- Gemini 3.8 Live covers 97 languages and runs tool calls mid sentence; OpenAI pushes that orchestration into your application layer.
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