Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs o3-pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

o3-pro OpenAI

42.9

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and o3-pro in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 29.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 31.1% for Gemini 3 Pro and 4.9% for o3-pro.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and o3-pro specifications
Gemini 3 Proo3-pro
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.842.9
Released2025-11-182025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$20
Output $ / M tokens—$80
Results tracked6712

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Category by category

Coding o3-pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), o3-pro: 55.5 (#24)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3-pro
WeirdML69.9%58.2%
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
Aider Polyglot—84.9%
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
LMArena Coding1481—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), o3-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3-pro
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
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—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), o3-pro: 23.8 (#171)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3-pro
ARC-AGI-231.1%4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%72.1%
ARC-AGI-175%59.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92147.42
SimpleBench76.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
DTBench—86.9%
LMCA—38.5%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), o3-pro: —

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), o3-pro: 29.5 (#238)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3-pro
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%23.3%
GPQA Diamond92.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Confabulations—14.2%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), o3-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3-pro
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), o3-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3-pro
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), o3-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3-pro
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context o3-pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), o3-pro: 72.2 (#1)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3-pro
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), o3-pro: 57.1 (#133)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3-pro
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
Short-Story Creative Writing—84.4%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than o3-pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or o3-pro better for coding?

o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 51.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and o3-pro share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.

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