Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Pro vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Pro Google

39.1

Rank #173 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 65.7% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 92.6% for Gemini 3 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Pro and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Gemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index39.154.8
Released2025-02-052025-11-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
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Results tracked1467

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187), Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
Aider Polyglot35.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1440
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
GSO—18.6%
WeirdML—69.9%
LiveBench Coding63.5%—
LMArena Coding—1481
ALE-Bench—1,177
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 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

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
EnigmaEval0.7%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.06152.92
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%
LiveBench Reasoning60.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1480
LiveBench Data Analysis68%—
ForecastBench—61.2
LiveBench65.1%—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100), Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.4%
ProofBench—20%
Omni-MATH—55.5%
LiveBench Math71%—
LMArena Math—1476
MATH Level 583.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—18.8%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167), Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond65.7%92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—37.5%
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Confabulations18.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%
LMArena Expert—1475

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision—1305
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 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 Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
LiveBench Instruction Following83.4%—
IFEval—87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1458

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292), Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
Fiction.LiveBench41.7%—
CL-bench—15.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1471

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text—1479
LMArena Creative Writing—1482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1525
WildBench—85.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1484
LiveBench Language44.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and Gemini 3 Pro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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