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AI audio cost comparison
Artificial Analysis's bar chart drew 3.1K views on X: 0.1x its typical post and #123 of 127 Artificial Analysis charts we track by views. Read Oct 14, 2026.
Grok Voice 3.0 costs $4.80 per hour of input audio, the same as Grok Voice 2.0. That is above GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at $4.47 and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) at $3.50, below GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at $5.83, and ~2.2x cheaper
Grok Voice 3.0 costs $4.80 per hour of input audio, the same as Grok Voice 2.0. That is above GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at $4.47 and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) at $3.50, below GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at $5.8
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