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Gemini 3 Pro vs o3

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Winner summary

Gemini 3 Pro wins 24 of 28 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · agentic · reasoning.

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Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Pro
#71 by perf·#6 by attention
DESERVED
o3
#111 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Gemini 3 Pro
n/a
no price
o3
10.2 pts/$
$5.00/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 3 Proo3
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +9.0
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
o3
36.1
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +1.0
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
o3
38.4
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +21.1
Gemini 3 Pro
41.3
o3
20.2
APEX-Agents
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +1.2
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
o3
17.2
ARC-AGI
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +14.2
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
o3
60.8
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +24.6
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
o3
6.5
Chess Puzzles
o3 leads by +7.4
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3 Pro
27.4
o3
34.8
Cl Bench
o3 leads by +2.0
Gemini 3 Pro
15.8
o3
17.8
DeepResearch Bench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +1.1
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
Gemini 3 Pro
46.3
o3
45.2
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +47.3
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3 Pro
66.0
o3
18.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +27.8
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
31.3
o3
3.5
Gdpval
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +9.5
Gemini 3 Pro
40.3
o3
30.8
GeoBench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +10.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
Gemini 3 Pro
84.0
o3
74.0
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +14.4
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
o3
75.8
GSO-Bench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +9.8
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
o3
8.8
HELM · GPQA
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +5.0
Gemini 3 Pro
80.3
o3
75.3
HELM · IFEval
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +0.7
Gemini 3 Pro
87.6
o3
86.9
HELM · MMLU-Pro
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +4.4
Gemini 3 Pro
90.3
o3
85.9
HELM · Omni-MATH
o3 leads by +15.8
Gemini 3 Pro
55.6
o3
71.4
HELM · WildBench
o3 leads by +0.2
Gemini 3 Pro
85.9
o3
86.1
HLE
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +18.1
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
o3
16.3
Metr Time Horizons
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +5.5
Gemini 3 Pro
71.0
o3
65.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +6.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3 Pro
91.4
o3
84.4
SimpleBench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +28.0
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 3 Pro
71.7
o3
43.7
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +23.5
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
o3
49.4
SWE-Bench verified
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +10.6
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
o3
62.3
VPCT
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +58.5
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Gemini 3 Pro
86.5
o3
28.0
WeirdML
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +17.5
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3 Pro
69.9
o3
52.4
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 Proo3
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?"
45.036.1
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.
39.438.4
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
41.320.2
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
18.417.2
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
75.060.8
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.
31.16.5
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
27.434.8
Cl Bench
15.817.8
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
46.345.2
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.
66.018.7
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.
31.33.5
Gdpval
40.330.8
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
84.074.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
90.275.8
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.
18.68.8
HELM · GPQA
80.375.3
HELM · IFEval
87.686.9
HELM · MMLU-Pro
90.385.9
HELM · Omni-MATH
55.671.4
HELM · WildBench
85.986.1
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%.
34.416.3
Metr Time Horizons
71.065.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
91.484.4
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
71.743.7
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
72.949.4
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.
72.962.3
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
86.528.0
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
69.952.4
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Pro————
OpenAI logoo3$2.00$8.00200K tokens (~100 books)$35.00