Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Sonar

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Sonar Perplexity

38.5

Rank #187 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 21.1.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Sonar specifications
Gemini 3 ProSonar
ProviderGooglePerplexity
Noometry Index54.838.5
Released2025-11-182024-01-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$1
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked677

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Sonar: 35.7 (#221)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProSonar
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
LiveBench Coding—35.1%
LMArena Coding1481—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Sonar: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProSonar
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), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProSonar
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning—46.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
LiveBench Data Analysis—37.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92—
ForecastBench61.2—
LiveBench—46.9%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Sonar: 33.7 (#200)

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Sonar: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProSonar
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), Sonar: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProSonar
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Sonar: —

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

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProSonar
LiveBench Instruction Following—76.2%
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Sonar: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProSonar
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProSonar
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—
LiveBench Language—44.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Sonar?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Sonar better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 35.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.

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