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Gemini 3 Pro wins 18 of 28 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · arena · knowledge.

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Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
#98 by perf·no signal
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Gemini 3 Pro
#40 by perf·no signal
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Gemini 2.5 Pro
#61 by perf·no signal
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Best value
2.8x better value than Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
28.1 pts/$
$1.75/M
Gemini 3 Pro
no price
Gemini 2.5 Pro
10.0 pts/$
$5.63/M
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$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
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Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
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Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
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Head to head
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGemini 3 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +4.6
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
49.7
Gemini 3 Pro
45.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
32.7
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +3.3
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
42.6
Gemini 3 Pro
39.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
31.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +5.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
46.4
Gemini 3 Pro
41.3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
34.6
ARC-AGI
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +34.0
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
21.5
Gemini 3 Pro
75.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
41.0
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +2.5
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 Flash Preview
33.6
Gemini 3 Pro
31.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
4.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +1.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1436.4
Gemini 3 Pro
1437.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1202.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +12.3
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1473.9
Gemini 3 Pro
1486.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1448.2
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +7.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
38.0
Gemini 3 Pro
31.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
20.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +2.0
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
35.6
Gemini 3 Pro
37.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro
14.1
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +14.6
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 Flash Preview
4.2
Gemini 3 Pro
18.8
Gemini 2.5 Pro
4.2
GeoBench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +4.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
88.0
Gemini 3 Pro
84.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
81.0
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +9.8
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
77.6
Gemini 3 Pro
90.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
80.4
GSO-Bench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +8.8
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 Flash Preview
9.8
Gemini 3 Pro
18.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro
3.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +1.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
92.8
Gemini 3 Pro
91.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
84.7
SimpleBench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +16.8
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
53.3
Gemini 3 Pro
71.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
54.9
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +5.5
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
67.4
Gemini 3 Pro
72.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
56.0
SWE-Bench verified
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +2.5
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 Flash Preview
75.4
Gemini 3 Pro
72.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
57.6
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +5.1
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 Flash Preview
64.3
Gemini 3 Pro
69.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
32.6
VPCT
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +27.6
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
58.9
Gemini 3 Pro
86.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
19.6
WeirdML
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +8.3
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
61.6
Gemini 3 Pro
69.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
54.0
APEX-Agents
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +5.6
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
24.0
Gemini 3 Pro
18.4
Balrog
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +4.8
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
48.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
43.3
HELM · GPQA
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +5.4
Gemini 3 Pro
80.3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
74.9
HELM · IFEval
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +3.6
Gemini 3 Pro
87.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro
84.0
HELM · MMLU-Pro
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +4.0
Gemini 3 Pro
90.3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
86.3
HELM · Omni-MATH
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +14.0
Gemini 3 Pro
55.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro
41.6
HELM · WildBench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +0.2
Gemini 3 Pro
85.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
85.7
HLE
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +16.7
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 Pro
34.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
17.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemini 3 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
49.745.032.7
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
42.639.431.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
46.441.334.6
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
21.575.041.0
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.
33.631.14.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1436.41437.61202.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1473.91486.21448.2
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
38.031.020.0
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.
35.637.614.1
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.
4.218.84.2
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
88.084.081.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
77.690.280.4
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.
9.818.63.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
92.891.484.7
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
53.371.754.9
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
67.472.956.0
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.
75.472.957.6
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.
64.369.432.6
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
58.986.519.6
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
61.669.954.0
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
24.018.4
Balrog
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
48.143.3
HELM · GPQA
80.374.9
HELM · IFEval
87.684.0
HELM · MMLU-Pro
90.386.3
HELM · Omni-MATH
55.641.6
HELM · WildBench
85.985.7
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%.
34.417.7
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Flash Preview$0.50$3.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$11.25
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Pro
Google DeepMind logoGemini 2.5 Pro$1.25$10.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$34.38