Model comparison

Claude Instant vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro has enough public results to be ranked (#28); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Instant Anthropic

29.5

Unranked Sparse

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 19.6.

Side by side

Claude Instant and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Claude InstantGemini 3 Pro
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.554.8
Released2023-08-092025-11-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked767

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
LMArena WebDev—1440
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
GSO—18.6%
WeirdML—69.9%
LMArena Coding—1481
ALE-Bench—1,177
AlgoTune—1.83
HumanEval+50.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
DeepResearch Bench—46.3%
BALROG—58.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—71%
Vending-Bench 2—5,478

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Instant: 19.6, Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
Epoch Capabilities Index120.28152.92
ARC-AGI-2—31.1%
SimpleBench—76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—80.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—94.4%
ARC-AGI-1—75%
CritPt—6.9%
Chess Puzzles—31%
EnigmaEval—18.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1480
DTBench45.8%—
ForecastBench—61.2

Math Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.4%
ProofBench—20%
Omni-MATH—55.5%
LMArena Math—1476
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—18.8%
GSM8K86.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond—92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—37.5%
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%
LMArena Expert—1475
ARC (AI2) Challenge86.3%—
MMLU73.4%—
TriviaQA78.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision—1305
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English—1474
LMArena Chinese—1523
LMArena French—1492
LMArena German—1515
LMArena Japanese—1510
LMArena Korean—1448
LMArena Russian—1493
LMArena Spanish—1470

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
IFEval—87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1458

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
CL-bench—15.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1471

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text—1479
LMArena Creative Writing—1482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1525
WildBench—85.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1484

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Instant better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro has enough public results to be ranked (#28); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemini 3 Pro share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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