Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs GPT-5.3 Codex

Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5.3 Codex score almost the same on the Noometry Index (45.0 vs 45.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

GPT-5.3 Codex OpenAI

45.8

Rank #69 Reported

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.3 Codex in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GPT-5.3 Codex leads 48.0 to 29.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 32.6% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 78.4% for GPT-5.3 Codex.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro is cheaper at $1.25 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $1.75 / $14 for GPT-5.3 Codex.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 400K.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5.3 Codex specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index45.045.8
Released2025-03-252026-02-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M400K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$1.75
Output $ / M tokens$10$14
Results tracked788

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.3 Codex leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), GPT-5.3 Codex: 48.6 (#56)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
SWE-bench Verified57.6%74.8%
LMArena WebDev12271409
WeirdML54%79.3%
ALE-Bench785.521,655
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
LMArena Coding1452—
CadEval64%—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.3 Codex leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), GPT-5.3 Codex: 48.0 (#9)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
Terminal-Bench32.6%78.4%
METR Time Horizons55.4%74.5%
Vending-Bench 2573.645,940
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32156.77
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1455—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
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), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
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), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
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), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1449—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), GPT-5.3 Codex: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.3 Codex
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 GPT-5.3 Codex?

Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5.3 Codex score almost the same on the Noometry Index (45.0 vs 45.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-5.3 Codex?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is cheaper. It lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; GPT-5.3 Codex lists at $1.75 and $14.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-5.3 Codex better for coding?

GPT-5.3 Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 400K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5.3 Codex share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.3 Codex has 8.

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