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Gemini 3 Pro vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

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Winner summary

Gemini 3 Pro wins 26 of 26 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · reasoning · arena.

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Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Pro
#38 by perf·no signal
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Gemini 2.5 Pro
#59 by perf·no signal
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Best value
Gemini 3 Pro
no price
Gemini 2.5 Pro
10.0 pts/$
$5.63/M
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Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
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$4.00T·Tier 1
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Head to head
Gemini 3 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +12.4
Gemini 3 Pro
45.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
32.7
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +7.4
Gemini 3 Pro
39.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
31.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +6.7
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 Pro
75.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
41.0
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +26.3
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 Pro
31.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
4.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +235.6
Gemini 3 Pro
1437.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1202.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +38.0
Gemini 3 Pro
1486.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1448.2
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +11.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3 Pro
31.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
20.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +23.5
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
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 Pro
18.8
Gemini 2.5 Pro
4.2
GeoBench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +3.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
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 Pro
90.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
80.4
GSO-Bench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +14.7
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 Pro
18.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro
3.9
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) · crowdsourced expert-level questions designed to be among the hardest possible challenges for AI systems across all domains.
Gemini 3 Pro
34.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
17.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +6.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
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 Pro
71.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
54.9
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +16.9
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Gemini 3 Pro
72.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
56.0
SWE-Bench verified
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +15.4
Gemini 3 Pro
72.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
57.6
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +36.8
Terminal Bench · tests the ability to accomplish real-world tasks using terminal commands, evaluating shell scripting and CLI tool proficiency.
Gemini 3 Pro
69.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
32.6
VPCT
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +66.9
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Gemini 3 Pro
86.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
19.6
WeirdML
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +15.9
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3 Pro
69.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
54.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
45.032.7
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
39.431.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
41.334.6
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
75.041.0
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.
31.14.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1437.61202.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1486.21448.2
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
31.020.0
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.
37.614.1
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.
18.84.2
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
84.081.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
90.280.4
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.
18.63.9
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) · crowdsourced expert-level questions designed to be among the hardest possible challenges for AI systems across all domains.
34.417.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
91.484.7
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
71.754.9
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
72.956.0
SWE-Bench verified
72.957.6
Terminal Bench
Terminal Bench · tests the ability to accomplish real-world tasks using terminal commands, evaluating shell scripting and CLI tool proficiency.
69.432.6
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
86.519.6
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
69.954.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Pro
Google DeepMind logoGemini 2.5 Pro$1.25$10.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$34.38