Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-4.1 mini

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 36 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.5

Rank #232 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 36 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 10 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 10.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 75% for Gemini 3 Pro and 3.5% for GPT-4.1 mini.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-4.1 mini specifications
Gemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.733.5
Released2025-11-182025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked6747

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%23.9%
WeirdML69.9%37.6%
LMArena Coding14821367
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—40.4%
GSO18.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
CadEval—16%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%50.5%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
ARC-AGI-231.1%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%48.6%
ARC-AGI-175%3.5%
CritPt6.9%0%
Chess Puzzles31%7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811349
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96135.01
SimpleBench76.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LMCA—21.1%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%44.7%
Omni-MATH55.5%49.1%
LMArena Math14751343
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%4.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
GPQA Diamond92.6%65.8%
MMLU-Pro90.3%78.3%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%61.4%
LMArena Expert14751338
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision13051181
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English14741318
LMArena Chinese15221329
LMArena French14921357
LMArena German15171349
LMArena Japanese15131291
LMArena Korean14491298
LMArena Russian14931324
LMArena Spanish14681319

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
IFEval87.7%90.4%
LMArena Instruction Following14581332

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query14721344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text14791341
LMArena Creative Writing14821300
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251147
WildBench85.9%83.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn14841354

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-4.1 mini?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-4.1 mini share?

36 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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