Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Solar Pro 3

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#23); Solar Pro 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google

56.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Solar Pro 3 Upstage

33.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher in 2 categories and Solar Pro 3 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 71.7 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 58.9% for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and 24.7% for Solar Pro 3.
  • Solar Pro 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Solar Pro 3 specifications
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
ProviderGoogleUpstage
Noometry Index56.733.9
Released2026-02-192026-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$12$0.25
Results tracked712

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.5 (#99), Solar Pro 3: 34.8

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
SciCode58.9%24.7%
SWE-bench Verified75.6%—
DeepSWE11.7%—
LMArena WebDev1447—
GSO22.6%—
WeirdML72.1%—
LMArena Coding1484—
MirrorCode8.9%—
ALE-Bench1,161—
AlgoTune2.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#34), Solar Pro 3: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents35.3%—
τ²-bench Banking26%—
DeepResearch Bench47.8%—
PostTrainBench22%—
BALROG57%—
ExploitBench26.1%—
GBAEval0.8%—
GDP.pdf17%—
LMArena Search1211—
METR Time Horizons77%—
Vending-Bench 23,774—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#12), Solar Pro 3: 22.4

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
CritPt17.7%0%
ARC-AGI-277.1%—
SimpleBench79.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198%—
Chess Puzzles55%—
EnigmaEval36.8%—
Thematic Generalization79.4%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
DTBench97.1%—
LMCA53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.77—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 62.1 (#34), Solar Pro 3: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)59.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions86.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench26%—
LMArena Math1485—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)36.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)16.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3), Solar Pro 3: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
GPQA Diamond94.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam46.4%—
SimpleQA Verified73.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.4%—
LMArena Expert1485—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.9 (#69), Solar Pro 3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
LMArena Vision1296—
Blueprint-Bench 226.5%—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—
LMArena Document1444—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.0 (#12), Solar Pro 3: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
LMArena Non-English1477—
LMArena Chinese1529—
LMArena French1487—
LMArena German1491—
LMArena Japanese1493—
LMArena Korean1455—
LMArena Russian1498—
LMArena Spanish1479—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.0 (#32), Solar Pro 3: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.4 (#18), Solar Pro 3: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
CL-bench20.8%—
CL-bench Life16.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1483—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.1 (#37), Solar Pro 3: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewSolar Pro 3
LMArena Text1481—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1491—
EQ-Bench 41142—
LMArena Multi-Turn1488—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better than Solar Pro 3?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#23); Solar Pro 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Solar Pro 3?

Solar Pro 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview lists at $2 and $12.

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Solar Pro 3 better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 34.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Solar Pro 3 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro 3 has 2.

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