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Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Livevs.Flux

Which model is better?

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live is slightly ahead in independent tests, but the lead is not certain.

Independent tests
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live0 of 2
Flux0 of 2
Coval, Artificial Analysis
Popularity
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live35
Flux37
out of 100
Weights and access
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Liveproprietary
Fluxproprietary
Price
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live$3.50 per 1M audio tokens ($0.005 per audio minute)
Fluxn/a
verbatim from the provider

Pick Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live for

leaning Artificial Analysis

Pick Flux for

No clear edge

Shared tests

Independent evaluators and leaderboards only, the newest shared snapshot per evaluator. With 95 % ranges a lead counts when they do not overlap; for hit rates, when it holds in a 95 % test. Without any uncertainty figure at most “slightly ahead”.

Coval

depends on the subtest

Flux is clearly ahead in 0 of 16 subtests and slightly in 9, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live in 0 clearly and slightly in 5. 2 are level.

Coval Word Error Rate (WER) per-sample p50

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live0.0 %
Flux3.1 %

lower is better, as of November 5, 2026

Coval Time to Final Segment (TTFS) mean

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live381 ms
Flux102 ms

lower is better, as of November 5, 2026

Coval Time to Final Segment (TTFS) p50

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live325 ms
Flux99 ms

lower is better, as of November 5, 2026

Show all 16 subtests
SubtestGemini 3.5 Transcribe LiveFluxVerdict
Coval Word Error Rate (WER) per-sample p50 (lower is better)0.0 %3.1 %Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live slightly ahead
Coval Time to Final Segment (TTFS) mean (lower is better)381 ms102 msFlux slightly ahead
Coval Time to Final Segment (TTFS) p50 (lower is better)325 ms99 msFlux slightly ahead
Coval Time to First Token (TTFT) maximum (lower is better)12,993 ms4,616 msFlux slightly ahead
Coval Time to Final Segment (TTFS) maximum (lower is better)5,018 ms13,993 msGemini 3.5 Transcribe Live slightly ahead
Coval pooled corpus Word Error Rate (WER) (lower is better)2.9 %5.7 %Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live slightly ahead
Coval Word Error Rate (WER) per-sample mean (lower is better)3.4 %6.4 %Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live slightly ahead
Coval RTF maximum (lower is better)3.125.29Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live slightly ahead
Coval Time to First Token (TTFT) mean (lower is better)1,533 ms1,095 msFlux slightly ahead
Coval Time to First Token (TTFT) p50 (lower is better)1,475 ms1,172 msFlux slightly ahead
Coval AudioToFinal maximum (lower is better)18.79 s17.25 sFlux slightly ahead
Coval Word Error Rate (WER) per-sample maximum (lower is better)100.0 %92.3 %Flux slightly ahead
Coval RTF mean (lower is better)1.061.02Flux slightly ahead
Coval AudioToFinal mean (lower is better)8.32 s8.05 sFlux slightly ahead
Coval AudioToFinal p50 (lower is better)8.67 s8.42 slevel
Coval RTF p50 (lower is better)1.041.01level

Source · latest November 5, 2026

Artificial Analysis

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live slightly ahead

Artificial Analysis AA-WER Streaming (final transcription)

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live4.0 %
Flux7.4 %

lower is better, as of October 15, 2026

Source · latest October 15, 2026

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Prices are verbatim from the provider, because audio models bill per minute, character or token.

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe LiveFlux
TaskSpeech to textSpeech to text
DeveloperGoogleDeepgram
StatusActiveActive
Weightsproprietaryproprietary
Runs locallynono
Price$3.50 per 1M audio tokens ($0.005 per audio minute)n/a
Popularity (out of 100)3537