Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs o3

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 8 categories and o3 in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 50.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 27.1% for Gemini 4 Argon and 1.4% for o3.

Side by side

Gemini 4 Argono3
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index56.547.5
Released2026-09-302025-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked2163

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), o3: 46.8 (#64)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
LMArena Coding15501408
SWE-bench Verified—62.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—58.4%
Aider Polyglot—81.3%
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
SciCode61.8%—
GSO—8.8%
WeirdML—52.4%
CadEval—74%
ALE-Bench—933.55

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), o3: 34.5 (#44)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—30.8%
DeepResearch Bench—45.2%
OSWorld—23%
LMArena Search—1144
METR Time Horizons—65.4%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), o3: 32.0 (#78)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
CritPt27.1%1.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts15481402
ARC-AGI-2—6.5%
SimpleBench—53.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—60.8%
Chess Puzzles—38%
EnigmaEval—13.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles—29%
DTBench—84.8%
LMCA—39.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.86
ForecastBench—62.5

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), o3: 50.2 (#58)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
LMArena Math15361426
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—33.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
ProofBench99%—
Omni-MATH—71.4%
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—18.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge o3 leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), o3: 54.6 (#52)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
LMArena Expert15531402
GPQA Diamond—81.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—20.3%
SimpleQA Verified—49.4%
MMLU-Pro—85.9%
Confabulations—14.4%
GPQA (HELM)—75.3%

Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), o3: 41.4 (#36)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
LMArena Vision—1214
GeoBench—74%
VPCT—52%
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), o3: 51.7 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
LMArena Non-English15231401
LMArena Chinese16101437
LMArena Russian15371406
LMArena Spanish14971395
LMArena French—1430
LMArena German—1420
LMArena Japanese—1403
LMArena Korean—1370

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), o3: 72.8 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
LMArena Instruction Following15381368
IFEval—86.9%

Long Context o3 leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), o3: 53.3 (#6)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
LMArena Longer Query15491372
Fiction.LiveBench—88.9%
CL-bench—17.8%

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), o3: 63.5 (#64)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3
LMArena Text15341410
LMArena Creative Writing15311359
LMArena Multi-Turn15571405
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1676
WildBench—86.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than o3?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or o3 better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 46.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and o3 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.

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