Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs o3-pro

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

o3-pro OpenAI

42.7

Rank #94 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and o3-pro in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.7 to 24.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 72.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 4.9% for o3-pro.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper at $1.50 / $9 per million input/output tokens, against $20 / $80 for o3-pro.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash and o3-pro specifications
Gemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.142.7
Released2026-05-192025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output66K100K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$20
Output $ / M tokens$9$80
Results tracked5412

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Category by category

Coding o3-pro leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), o3-pro: 55.1 (#22)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
WeirdML62.6%58.2%
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
Aider Polyglot—84.9%
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107), o3-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16), o3-pro: 24.1 (#152)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
ARC-AGI-272.1%4.9%
ARC-AGI-192.5%59.3%
DTBench94.7%86.9%
LMCA47.1%38.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.55147.43
SimpleBench76.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.1%
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), o3-pro: —

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), o3-pro: 29.0 (#234)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Confabulations—14.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.3%
LMArena Expert1493—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), o3-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
LMArena Vision1311—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), o3-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
LMArena Non-English1475—
LMArena Chinese1525—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1500—
LMArena Japanese1481—
LMArena Korean1453—
LMArena Russian1491—
LMArena Spanish1478—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29), o3-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context o3-pro leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), o3-pro: 72.1 (#1)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
LMArena Longer Query1481—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), o3-pro: 57.1 (#128)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flasho3-pro
LMArena Text1481—
LMArena Creative Writing1467—
Short-Story Creative Writing—84.4%
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than o3-pro?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or o3-pro?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $9 per million output tokens; o3-pro lists at $20 and $80.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or o3-pro better for coding?

o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.1 versus 49.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and o3-pro share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.

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