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Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Grok 4

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Winner summary

Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins 12 of 14 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · knowledge.

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Gemini 3 Flash Preview
#98 by perf·no signal
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Grok 4
#73 by perf·no signal
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Best value
4.6x better value than Grok 4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
28.1 pts/$
$1.75/M
Grok 4
6.1 pts/$
$9.00/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
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xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGrok 4
APEX-Agents
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +8.8
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
Grok 4
15.2
ARC-AGI
Grok 4 leads by +45.2
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
Grok 4
66.7
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +17.6
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
Grok 4
16.0
Balrog
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +4.5
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
48.1
Grok 4
43.6
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +10.0
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
Grok 4
28.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +16.0
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
Grok 4
19.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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 Flash Preview
4.2
Grok 4
2.1
GeoBench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +43.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
88.0
Grok 4
45.0
GPQA diamond
Grok 4 leads by +5.1
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
Grok 4
82.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +8.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
92.8
Grok 4
84.0
SimpleBench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +0.7
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
53.3
Grok 4
52.6
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +19.5
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
Grok 4
47.9
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +37.1
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
Grok 4
27.2
WeirdML
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +15.9
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
61.6
Grok 4
45.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGrok 4
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
24.015.2
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
21.566.7
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.
33.616.0
Balrog
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
48.143.6
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
38.028.0
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.
35.619.7
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.
4.22.1
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
88.045.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
77.682.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
92.884.0
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
53.352.6
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
67.447.9
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.
64.327.2
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
61.645.7
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
xAI logoGrok 4$3.00$15.00256K tokens (~128 books)$60.00