Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.3 Codex

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 45.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

GPT-5.3 Codex OpenAI

45.8

Rank #69 Reported

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5.3 Codex in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GPT-5.3 Codex leads 48.0 to 40.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 69.9% for Gemini 3 Pro and 79.3% for GPT-5.3 Codex.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.3 Codex specifications
Gemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.845.8
Released2025-11-182026-02-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.75
Output $ / M tokens—$14
Results tracked678

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GPT-5.3 Codex: 48.6 (#56)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
SWE-bench Verified72.9%74.8%
LMArena WebDev14401409
WeirdML69.9%79.3%
ALE-Bench1,1771,655
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
LMArena Coding1481—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.3 Codex leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GPT-5.3 Codex: 48.0 (#9)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
Terminal-Bench69.4%78.4%
METR Time Horizons71%74.5%
Vending-Bench 25,4785,940
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
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—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92156.77
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LMArena Math1476—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
GPQA Diamond92.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
LMArena Non-English1474—
LMArena Chinese1523—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-5.3 Codex?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 45.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5.3 Codex better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 48.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.3 Codex share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.3 Codex has 8.

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