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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs GPT-5.2

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Winner summary

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 12 of 20 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · arena · knowledge.

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Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
#74 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.2
#93 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.2x better value than GPT-5.2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
8.1 pts/$
$7.00/M
GPT-5.2
6.8 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGPT-5.2
APEX-Agents
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.8
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
33.5
GPT-5.2
34.3
ARC-AGI
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +11.8
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
98.0
GPT-5.2
86.2
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +24.2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
77.1
GPT-5.2
52.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +42.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1447.0
GPT-5.2
1405.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +51.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1486.4
GPT-5.2
1434.6
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +6.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
55.0
GPT-5.2
49.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +3.8
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
36.9
GPT-5.2
40.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +2.1
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
16.7
GPT-5.2
18.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +4.9
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
26.8
GPT-5.2
31.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +7.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
59.6
GPT-5.2
67.4
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +3.6
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
92.1
GPT-5.2
88.5
GSO-Bench
GPT-5.2 leads by +4.8
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
22.6
GPT-5.2
27.4
HLE
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +19.6
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
43.7
GPT-5.2
24.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
95.6
GPT-5.2
96.1
PostTrainBench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +0.2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
21.6
GPT-5.2
21.4
SimpleBench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +40.6
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
75.5
GPT-5.2
35.0
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +38.4
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
77.3
GPT-5.2
38.9
SWE-Bench verified
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +1.9
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
75.6
GPT-5.2
73.8
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +15.3
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
80.2
GPT-5.2
64.9
WeirdML
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
72.1
GPT-5.2
72.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGPT-5.2
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
33.534.3
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
98.086.2
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
77.152.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1447.01405.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1486.41434.6
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
55.049.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
36.940.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
16.718.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
26.831.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
59.667.4
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
92.188.5
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
22.627.4
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
43.724.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
95.696.1
PostTrainBench
21.621.4
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
75.535.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
77.338.9
SWE-Bench verified
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
75.673.8
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
80.264.9
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
72.172.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3.1 Pro Preview$2.00$12.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$45.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13