The $0.08-a-minute API model led Artificial Analysis's October 13th index, but placed third in its blind preference arena.
By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
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Why it matters #
Grok Voice 3.0's top composite score strengthens SpaceXAI's case for selling voice agents to developers, but its third-place human-preference result and separately billed text input show why benchmark rank and per-minute price are only part of a deployment decision.
SpaceXAI, founded by Elon Musk (@elonmusk), released Grok Voice 3.0 on October 14th, putting its real-time speech model at the top of Artificial Analysis's composite speech-to-speech index. The model is available through SpaceXAI's Voice API for $0.08 per minute, the same listed audio rate as its predecessor, Grok Voice 2.0.…
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