Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Pro vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Pro Google

38.6

Rank #171 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 21.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 65.7% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 92.6% for Gemini 3 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Pro and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Gemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index38.654.7
Released2025-02-052025-11-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked1467

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.4 (#182), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
Aider Polyglot35.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1439
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
GSO—18.6%
WeirdML—69.9%
LiveBench Coding63.5%—
LMArena Coding—1482
ALE-Bench—1,177
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
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 Pro: 21.6 (#194), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
EnigmaEval0.7%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.06152.96
ARC-AGI-2—31.1%
SimpleBench—76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—80.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—94.4%
ARC-AGI-1—75%
CritPt—6.9%
Chess Puzzles—31%
LiveBench Reasoning60.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1481
LiveBench Data Analysis68%—
ForecastBench—61.2
LiveBench65.1%—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.1 (#101), Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.4%
ProofBench—20%
Omni-MATH—55.5%
LiveBench Math71%—
LMArena Math—1475
MATH Level 583.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—18.8%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#156), Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond65.7%92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—37.5%
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Confabulations18.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%
LMArena Expert—1475

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision—1305
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English—1474
LMArena Chinese—1522
LMArena French—1492
LMArena German—1517
LMArena Japanese—1513
LMArena Korean—1449
LMArena Russian—1493
LMArena Spanish—1468

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.6 (#57), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
LiveBench Instruction Following83.4%—
IFEval—87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1458

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.1 (#287), Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
Fiction.LiveBench41.7%—
CL-bench—15.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1472

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#164), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text—1479
LMArena Creative Writing—1482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1525
WildBench—85.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1484
LiveBench Language44.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 37.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and Gemini 3 Pro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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