Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 26.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 72.5% for Gemini 3 Pro and 10% for Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1.
  • Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 specifications
Gemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index54.836.7
Released2025-11-18—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked6711

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 38.4 (#177)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Coding14811312
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 15.7 (#149)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%10%
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 (#31), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 26.3 (#134)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Hard Prompts14801316
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 37.5 (#152)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Math14761360
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
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), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 43.1 (#187)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Non-English14741282
LMArena Russian14931284
LMArena Chinese1523—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 69.0 (#178)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Instruction Following14581308
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 39.5 (#177)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Longer Query14711299
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 52.2 (#175)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Text14791320
LMArena Creative Writing14821314
LMArena Multi-Turn14841317
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has 11.

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