Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google

56.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 71.7 to 15.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 1.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 77.1% for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index35.156.7
Released2024-12-062026-02-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$12
Results tracked5471

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.5 (#99)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
WeirdML25.8%72.1%
LMArena Coding13501484
SWE-bench Verified—75.6%
DeepSWE—11.7%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
LMArena WebDev—1447
SciCode—58.9%
GSO—22.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
MirrorCode—8.9%
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—
ALE-Bench—1,161
AlgoTune—2.02

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#34)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Terminal-Bench—80.2%
APEX-Agents—35.3%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
τ²-bench Banking—26%
DeepResearch Bench—47.8%
PostTrainBench—22%
BALROG—57%
ExploitBench—26.1%
GBAEval—0.8%
GDP.pdf—17%
LMArena Search—1211
METR Time Horizons—77%
Vending-Bench 2—3,774

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#12)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
ARC-AGI-21.3%77.1%
SimpleBench31.1%79.6%
EnigmaEval1.1%36.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461485
DTBench63.2%97.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36154.77
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)—97.4%
ARC-AGI-1—98%
CritPt—17.7%
Chess Puzzles—55%
Thematic Generalization—79.4%
EBR-Bench—14.3%
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—34%
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LMCA—53.8%
ForecastBench—59
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 62.1 (#34)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%95.6%
LMArena Math13521485
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%36.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—59.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—26.8%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—86.5%
ProofBench—26%
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—16.7%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPQA Diamond64.1%94.4%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%46.4%
LMArena Expert13391485
SimpleQA Verified—73.5%
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.4%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.9 (#69)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Vision11581296
GeoBench77%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—26.5%
Furniture Assembly—26.7%
LMArena Document—1444

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.0 (#12)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Non-English13421477
LMArena Chinese13731529
LMArena French13911487
LMArena German13531491
LMArena Japanese12941493
LMArena Korean13131455
LMArena Russian13511498
LMArena Spanish13631479

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.0 (#32)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Instruction Following13361466
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.4 (#18)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Longer Query13441483
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
CL-bench—20.8%
CL-bench Life—16.9%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.1 (#37)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Text13541481
LMArena Creative Writing13401482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11281491
LMArena Multi-Turn13501488
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
WildBench80%—
EQ-Bench 4—1142
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71.

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