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Gemini 3 Pro vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview
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Winner summary
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins on 20/26 benchmarks
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 20 of 26 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · agentic · reasoning.
Category leads
speed·Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewagentic·Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewreasoning·Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewarena·Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewknowledge·Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewmath·Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewcoding·Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Gemini 3 Pro
#52 by perf·no signal
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
#74 by perf·no signal
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
#133 by perf·no signal
Best value
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
3.4x better value than Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3 Pro
—
no price
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
8.1 pts/$
$7.00/M
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
27.3 pts/$
$1.75/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Head to head
26 benchmarks · 3 models
Gemini 3 ProGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 3 Flash Preview
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 Pro
45.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
21.4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
49.7
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +26.2
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 Pro
39.4
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
68.8
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
42.6
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +0.0
Gemini 3 Pro
41.3
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
46.5
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
46.4
APEX-Agents
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +9.5
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Gemini 3 Pro
18.4
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
33.5
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
24.0
ARC-AGI
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +23.0
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 3.1 Pro Preview
98.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
21.5
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +43.5
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 Pro
31.1
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
77.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
33.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +8.2
Gemini 3 Pro
1438.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1447.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1437.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +0.7
Gemini 3 Pro
1485.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1486.4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1473.2
Balrog
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +1.1
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
Gemini 3 Pro
58.1
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
57.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
48.1
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +17.0
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 3.1 Pro Preview
55.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
38.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +0.7
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 3.1 Pro Preview
36.9
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
35.6
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Gemini 3 Pro 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 Pro
18.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
16.7
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
4.2
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +2.0
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 3.1 Pro Preview
92.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
77.6
GSO-Bench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +3.9
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 3.1 Pro Preview
22.6
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
9.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +2.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3 Pro
91.4
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
95.6
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
92.8
SimpleBench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +3.8
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 3 Pro
71.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
75.5
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
53.3
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +4.4
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 3.1 Pro Preview
77.3
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
67.4
SWE-Bench verified
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +0.2
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 Pro
72.9
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
75.6
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
75.4
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +10.8
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 Pro
69.4
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
80.2
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
64.3
WeirdML
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +2.2
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3 Pro
69.9
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
72.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
61.6
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +9.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
26.8
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
17.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +8.4
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
59.6
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
51.2
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 Pro
84.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
88.0
HLE
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +9.4
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 3.1 Pro Preview
43.7
PostTrainBench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +3.5
Gemini 3 Pro
18.1
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
21.6
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 Pro
86.5
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
58.9
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|---|
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?" | 45.0 | 21.4 | 49.7 |
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. | 39.4 | 68.8 | 42.6 |
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index | 41.3 | 46.5 | 46.4 |
APEX-Agents APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments. | 18.4 | 33.5 | 24.0 |
ARC-AGI ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization. | 75.0 | 98.0 | 21.5 |
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. | 31.1 | 77.1 | 33.6 |
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding | 1438.8 | 1447.0 | 1437.1 |
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1485.7 | 1486.4 | 1473.2 |
Balrog Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning. | 58.1 | 57.0 | 48.1 |
Chess Puzzles Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities. | 31.0 | 55.0 | 38.0 |
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. | 37.6 | 36.9 | 35.6 |
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. | 18.8 | 16.7 | 4.2 |
GPQA diamond Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs. | 90.2 | 92.1 | 77.6 |
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. | 18.6 | 22.6 | 9.8 |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills. | 91.4 | 95.6 | 92.8 |
SimpleBench SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking. | 71.7 | 75.5 | 53.3 |
SimpleQA Verified SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information. | 72.9 | 77.3 | 67.4 |
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. | 72.9 | 75.6 | 75.4 |
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. | 69.4 | 80.2 | 64.3 |
WeirdML WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns. | 69.9 | 72.1 | 61.6 |
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private | — | 26.8 | 17.1 |
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private | — | 59.6 | 51.2 |
GeoBench GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding. | 84.0 | — | 88.0 |
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%. | 34.4 | 43.7 | — |
PostTrainBench | 18.1 | 21.6 | — |
VPCT VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations. | 86.5 | — | 58.9 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | |
| $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M tokens (~524 books) | $45.00 | |
| $0.50 | $3.00 | 1.0M tokens (~524 books) | $11.25 |