Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.2 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 39 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 39 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 6 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 40.6 to 24.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 72.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 31.1% for Gemini 3 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Gemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index54.254.8
Released2026-05-192025-11-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked5467

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified79.3%72.9%
LMArena WebDev14991440
WeirdML62.6%69.9%
LMArena Coding14921481
ALE-Bench911.021,177
DeepSWE37.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
SciCode53.1%—
GSO—18.6%
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
Vending-Bench 25,3965,478
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
APEX-Agents27.5%—
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%
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—71%

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
ARC-AGI-272.1%31.1%
SimpleBench76.7%76.4%
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%94.4%
ARC-AGI-192.5%75%
CritPt13.1%6.9%
Chess Puzzles50%31%
EnigmaEval25.4%18.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts14881480
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46152.92
ForecastBench5961.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark—80.1%
EBR-Bench4.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%67%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%91.4%
ProofBench31%20%
LMArena Math15041476
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%18.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
Omni-MATH—55.5%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond92.8%92.6%
LMArena Expert14951475
Humanity's Last Exam—37.5%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision13101305
LMArena Document14631434
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English14761474
LMArena Chinese15261523
LMArena French14901492
LMArena German14921515
LMArena Japanese14861510
LMArena Korean14511448
LMArena Russian14931493
LMArena Spanish14801470

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following14671458
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Longer Query14821471
CL-bench—15.8%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text14821479
LMArena Creative Writing14701482
LMArena Multi-Turn14811484
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1525
WildBench—85.9%
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.2 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 49.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro share?

39 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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