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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 20 of 26 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · agentic · reasoning.

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Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Pro
#52 by perf·no signal
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
#74 by perf·no signal
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Gemini 3 Flash Preview
#133 by perf·no signal
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Best value
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
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Google DeepMind
$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 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
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 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?"
45.021.449.7
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.
39.468.842.6
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
41.346.546.4
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
18.433.524.0
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
75.098.021.5
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.
31.177.133.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1438.81447.01437.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1485.71486.41473.2
Balrog
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
58.157.048.1
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
31.055.038.0
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.
37.636.935.6
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.
18.816.74.2
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
90.292.177.6
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.
18.622.69.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
91.495.692.8
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
71.775.553.3
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
72.977.367.4
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.
72.975.675.4
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.
69.480.264.3
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
69.972.161.6
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
26.817.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
59.651.2
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
84.088.0
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%.
34.443.7
PostTrainBench
18.121.6
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
86.558.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Pro
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3.1 Pro Preview$2.00$12.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$45.00
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Flash Preview$0.50$3.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$11.25