Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Flash Preview in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 15.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 13.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 75.8% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 52.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2025-12-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $3 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 59 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | 75.8% |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | 61.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1460 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 75.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1439 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 72.7% |
| GSO | — | 9.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,367 |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 64.3% |
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | — | 82.5% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 27.3% |
| τ²-bench Retail | — | 76.8% |
| τ²-bench Telecom | — | 91.2% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 49.8% |
| BALROG | — | 48.1% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 10% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1198 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 3,635 |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | 33.6% |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | 61.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1465 |
| DTBench | 63.2% | 89.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 151.8 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 83.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 84.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 40% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 26% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| LMCA | — | 43.1% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.5 |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 95.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1473 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | 35.6% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 51.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 67.6% |
| ProofBench | — | 15% |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 89.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1462 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 66.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 13.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | 1285 |
| GeoBench | 77% | 88% |
| VPCT | — | 72.6% |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 0% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1413 |
Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1458 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1511 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1477 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1497 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | 1489 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 1443 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1480 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1469 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1437 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1452 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1466 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1457 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1471 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Gemini 3 Flash Preview?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Gemini 3 Flash Preview better for coding?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemini 3 Flash Preview share?
28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59.