Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#215); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.5

Unranked Sparse

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.7

Rank #215 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.8 to 11.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 96% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 5.5% for GPT-4.1.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep Think and GPT-4.1 specifications
Gemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index58.535.7
Released2026-02-122025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked352

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1: 34.2 (#228)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
SWE-bench Verified—48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—39.6%
Aider Polyglot—52.4%
WeirdML—39%
LMArena Coding—1391
CadEval—42%
ALE-Bench—558.1

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#40)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—54%

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.8 (#11), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#334)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
ARC-AGI-284.6%0.4%
ARC-AGI-196%5.5%
SimpleBench—27%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
CritPt25.7%—
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval—2.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1384
DTBench—68.3%
LMCA—25.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—136.79
ForecastBench—61.5

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1: 21.4 (#269)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—38.3%
Omni-MATH—47.1%
LMArena Math—1369
MATH Level 5—83%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—5.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1: 37.0 (#152)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
GPQA Diamond—66.9%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
SimpleQA Verified—31.1%
MMLU-Pro—81.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.6%
GPQA (HELM)—65.9%
LMArena Expert—1364

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1: 37.5 (#66)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
LMArena Vision—1210
GeoBench—72%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1: 49.6 (#128)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English—1370
LMArena Chinese—1382
LMArena French—1383
LMArena German—1380
LMArena Japanese—1320
LMArena Korean—1339
LMArena Russian—1377
LMArena Spanish—1375

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1: 71.5 (#148)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
IFEval—83.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1367

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#158)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%
LMArena Longer Query—1385

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1: 57.8 (#120)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1
LMArena Text—1383
LMArena Creative Writing—1363
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1420
WildBench—85.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1398

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than GPT-4.1?

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#215); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and GPT-4.1 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.

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