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Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview

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Winner summary

GPT-5.2 wins 10 of 23 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-5.2speed·Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Pro
#40 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.2
#76 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
#98 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
4.1x better value than GPT-5.2
Gemini 3 Pro
no price
GPT-5.2
6.9 pts/$
$7.88/M
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
28.1 pts/$
$1.75/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Gemini 3 ProGPT-5.2Gemini 3 Flash Preview
APEX-Agents
GPT-5.2 leads by +10.3
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
24.0
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
21.5
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.2 leads by +19.3
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
GPT-5.2
52.9
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
33.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +1.1
Gemini 3 Pro
1437.6
GPT-5.2
1403.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1436.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +12.3
Gemini 3 Pro
1486.2
GPT-5.2
1439.5
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1473.9
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.2 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
GPT-5.2
49.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
38.0
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
35.6
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
4.2
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
77.6
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
9.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.2 leads by +3.3
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
92.8
SimpleBench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +18.4
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
53.3
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +5.5
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
67.4
SWE-Bench verified
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +1.6
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
75.4
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
64.3
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
58.9
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
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
61.6
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 Flash Preview
49.7
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +3.3
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 Flash Preview
42.6
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +5.1
Gemini 3 Pro
41.3
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
46.4
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 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
PostTrainBench
GPT-5.2 leads by +3.3
Gemini 3 Pro
18.1
GPT-5.2
21.4
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2Gemini 3 Flash Preview
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
18.434.324.0
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
75.086.221.5
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.
31.152.933.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1437.61403.11436.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1486.21439.51473.9
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
31.049.038.0
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.
37.640.735.6
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.
18.818.84.2
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
90.288.577.6
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.
18.627.49.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
91.496.192.8
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
71.735.053.3
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
72.938.967.4
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.
72.973.875.4
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.
69.464.964.3
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
86.576.058.9
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
69.972.261.6
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?"
45.049.7
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.
39.442.6
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
41.346.4
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%.
34.424.2
PostTrainBench
18.121.4
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
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Flash Preview$0.50$3.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$11.25