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Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.2

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Winner summary

GPT-5.2 wins 11 of 19 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · math.

Category leads
agentic·GPT-5.2reasoning·GPT-5.2arena·Gemini 3 Proknowledge·Gemini 3 Promath·GPT-5.2coding·GPT-5.2
Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Pro
#40 by perf·no signal
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GPT-5.2
#76 by perf·no signal
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Best value
Gemini 3 Pro
no price
GPT-5.2
6.9 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
APEX-Agents
GPT-5.2 leads by +15.9
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
GPT-5.2
34.3
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.2 leads by +11.2
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
GPT-5.2
86.2
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.2 leads by +21.8
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
GPT-5.2
52.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +34.5
Gemini 3 Pro
1437.6
GPT-5.2
1403.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +46.6
Gemini 3 Pro
1486.2
GPT-5.2
1439.5
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.2 leads by +18.0
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
GPT-5.2
49.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +3.1
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
GPT-5.2
40.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.1
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
GPT-5.2
18.8
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +1.6
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
GPT-5.2
88.5
GSO-Bench
GPT-5.2 leads by +8.8
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
GPT-5.2
27.4
HLE
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +10.2
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
GPT-5.2
24.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.2 leads by +4.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3 Pro
91.4
GPT-5.2
96.1
PostTrainBench
GPT-5.2 leads by +3.3
Gemini 3 Pro
18.1
GPT-5.2
21.4
SimpleBench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +36.7
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 3 Pro
71.7
GPT-5.2
35.0
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +34.0
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
GPT-5.2
38.9
SWE-Bench verified
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.8
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
GPT-5.2
73.8
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +4.5
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
GPT-5.2
64.9
VPCT
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +10.5
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Gemini 3 Pro
86.5
GPT-5.2
76.0
WeirdML
GPT-5.2 leads by +2.3
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3 Pro
69.9
GPT-5.2
72.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-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.
18.434.3
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
75.086.2
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.
31.152.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1437.61403.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1486.21439.5
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
31.049.0
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.
37.640.7
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.
18.818.8
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
90.288.5
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.
18.627.4
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%.
34.424.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
91.496.1
PostTrainBench
18.121.4
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
71.735.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
72.938.9
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.
72.973.8
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.
69.464.9
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
86.576.0
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
69.972.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Pro
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13