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Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs GPT-5.2

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Winner summary

GPT-5.2 wins 16 of 24 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · knowledge.

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Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
#125 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5.2
#147 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
4.8x better value than GPT-5.2
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
28.3 pts/$
$1.75/M
GPT-5.2
6.0 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGPT-5.2
APEX-Agents
GPT-5.2 leads by +10.3
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
GPT-5.2
34.3
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.2 leads by +1.5
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
84.7
GPT-5.2
86.2
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.2 leads by +19.3
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
GPT-5.2
52.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +23.4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1438.9
GPT-5.2
1415.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +37.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1472.7
GPT-5.2
1435.6
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.2 leads by +9.5
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
36.9
GPT-5.2
46.3
DeepResearch Bench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +8.7
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
49.8
GPT-5.2
41.1
Dtbench
GPT-5.2 leads by +3.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
81.8
GPT-5.2
84.9
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +5.1
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
GPT-5.2
40.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.2 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
GPT-5.2
18.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +14.6
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
17.1
GPT-5.2
31.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +16.2
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
51.2
GPT-5.2
67.4
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.2 leads by +2.7
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
85.9
GPT-5.2
88.5
GSO-Bench
GPT-5.2 leads by +17.6
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
GPT-5.2
27.4
Lmca
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.9
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
50.7
GPT-5.2
51.7
Mystery Game Puzzles
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +3.3
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
18.5
GPT-5.2
15.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.6
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
95.5
GPT-5.2
96.1
Proofbench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
15.0
GPT-5.2
15.0
SimpleBench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +18.4
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
53.3
GPT-5.2
35.0
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +29.7
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
66.8
GPT-5.2
37.1
SWE-Bench verified
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +1.6
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
GPT-5.2
73.8
Terminal Bench
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.7
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
GPT-5.2
64.9
VPCT
GPT-5.2 leads by +17.1
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
GPT-5.2
76.0
WeirdML
GPT-5.2 leads by +10.6
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
61.6
GPT-5.2
72.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash 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.
24.034.3
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
84.786.2
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.
33.652.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1438.91415.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1472.71435.6
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
36.946.3
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
49.841.1
Dtbench
81.884.9
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.
35.640.7
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.
4.218.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
17.131.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
51.267.4
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
85.988.5
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.
9.827.4
Lmca
50.751.7
Mystery Game Puzzles
18.515.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
95.596.1
Proofbench
15.015.0
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
53.335.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
66.837.1
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.
75.473.8
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.
64.364.9
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
58.976.0
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
61.672.2
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
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13