Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs o3

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 51 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 51 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and o3 in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 32.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is VPCT: 91% for Gemini 3 Pro and 52% for o3.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and o3 specifications
Gemini 3 Proo3
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.847.5
Released2025-11-182025-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked6763

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), o3: 46.8 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
SWE-bench Verified72.9%62.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%58.4%
GSO18.6%8.8%
WeirdML69.9%52.4%
LMArena Coding14811408
ALE-Bench1,177933.55
Aider Polyglot—81.3%
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
CadEval—74%
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), o3: 34.5 (#44)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%63%
GDPval40.3%30.8%
DeepResearch Bench46.3%45.2%
LMArena Search12071144
METR Time Horizons71%65.4%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
OSWorld—23%
BALROG58.1%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), o3: 32.0 (#78)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
ARC-AGI-231.1%6.5%
SimpleBench76.4%53.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%67.6%
ARC-AGI-175%60.8%
CritPt6.9%1.4%
Chess Puzzles31%38%
EnigmaEval18.2%13.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801402
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92146.86
ForecastBench61.262.5
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—29%
DTBench—84.8%
LMCA—39.7%

Math Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), o3: 50.2 (#58)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), o3: 54.6 (#52)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
GPQA Diamond92.6%81.8%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%20.3%
MMLU-Pro90.3%85.9%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%75.3%
LMArena Expert14751402
SimpleQA Verified—49.4%
Confabulations—14.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), o3: 41.4 (#36)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
LMArena Vision13051214
GeoBench84%74%
VPCT91%52%
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), o3: 51.7 (#105)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
LMArena Non-English14741401
LMArena Chinese15231437
LMArena French14921430
LMArena German15151420
LMArena Japanese15101403
LMArena Korean14481370
LMArena Russian14931406
LMArena Spanish14701395

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), o3: 72.8 (#127)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
IFEval87.7%86.9%
LMArena Instruction Following14581368

Long Context o3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), o3: 53.3 (#6)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
CL-bench15.8%17.8%
LMArena Longer Query14711372
Fiction.LiveBench—88.9%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), o3: 63.5 (#64)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
LMArena Text14791410
LMArena Creative Writing14821359
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251676
WildBench85.9%86.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn14841405
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than o3?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or o3 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 46.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and o3 share?

51 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.

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