Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 36 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 36 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 15.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 13.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 74.2% for Gemini 3 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index35.154.8
Released2024-12-062025-11-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked5467

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%74.2%
WeirdML25.8%69.9%
LMArena Coding13501481
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
LMArena WebDev—1440
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
GSO—18.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—
ALE-Bench—1,177
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
DeepResearch Bench—46.3%
BALROG—58.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—71%
Vending-Bench 2—5,478

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
ARC-AGI-21.3%31.1%
SimpleBench31.1%76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%80.1%
EnigmaEval1.1%18.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461480
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36152.92
NYT Connections (extended)—94.4%
ARC-AGI-1—75%
CritPt—6.9%
Chess Puzzles—31%
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
DTBench63.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
ForecastBench—61.2
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%91.4%
Omni-MATH45.9%55.5%
LMArena Math13521476
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%37.6%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67%
ProofBench—20%
LiveBench Math75.8%—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—18.8%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond64.1%92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%37.5%
MMLU-Pro73.7%90.3%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%80.3%
LMArena Expert13391475
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision11581305
GeoBench77%84%
VPCT—91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English13421474
LMArena Chinese13731523
LMArena French13911492
LMArena German13531515
LMArena Japanese12941510
LMArena Korean13131448
LMArena Russian13511493
LMArena Spanish13631470

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
IFEval84.1%87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following13361458
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Longer Query13441471
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
CL-bench—15.8%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text13541479
LMArena Creative Writing13401482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11281525
WildBench80%85.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13501484
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemini 3 Pro share?

36 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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