Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 3 Deep Think

Gemini 2.5 Pro has enough public results to be ranked (#75); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Deep Think in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.2 to 28.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 4.9% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 84.6% for Gemini 3 Deep Think.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Deep Think specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index45.058.3
Released2025-03-252026-02-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked783

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
LMArena Coding1452—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
ARC-AGI-24.9%84.6%
ARC-AGI-141%96%
CritPt2%25.7%
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1455—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
LMArena Math1450—
MATH Level 595.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
GPQA Diamond85.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—
LMArena Expert1452—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Non-English1451—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1472—
LMArena German1487—
LMArena Japanese1461—
LMArena Korean1434—
LMArena Russian1461—
LMArena Spanish1473—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1449—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Text1458—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1453—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Gemini 3 Deep Think?

Gemini 2.5 Pro has enough public results to be ranked (#75); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Deep Think share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3.

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