Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini has enough public results to be ranked (#128); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.3

Unranked Sparse

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.8

Rank #128 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5 Mini in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.2 to 23.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 84.6% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 4.4% for GPT-5 Mini.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep Think and GPT-5 Mini specifications
Gemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index58.341.8
Released2026-02-122025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked360

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
SWE-bench Verified—64.7%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—59.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual—39.7%
SciCode—39.2%
WeirdML—52.7%
LMArena Coding—1406
ALE-Bench—799.77
AlgoTune—1.38

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
Terminal-Bench—34.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.5%
Vending-Bench 2—-31.18

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14), GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
ARC-AGI-284.6%4.4%
ARC-AGI-196%54.3%
CritPt25.7%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
Chess Puzzles—30%
EnigmaEval—8.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1380
Mystery Game Puzzles—10%
DTBench—80.5%
LMCA—34.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.52
ForecastBench—61

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—12.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
ProofBench—9%
Omni-MATH—72.2%
LMArena Math—1378
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—27.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
GPQA Diamond—75%
Humanity's Last Exam—19.4%
SimpleQA Verified—21.6%
MMLU-Pro—83.5%
Confabulations—13.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%
GPQA (HELM)—75.6%
LMArena Expert—1379

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Vision—1202
VPCT—40.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Non-English—1363
LMArena Chinese—1385
LMArena French—1386
LMArena German—1366
LMArena Japanese—1341
LMArena Korean—1308
LMArena Russian—1362
LMArena Spanish—1355

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
IFEval—92.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1357

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench—69.4%
LMArena Longer Query—1355

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text—1373
LMArena Creative Writing—1325
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.1%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1313
WildBench—85.5%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1363

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini has enough public results to be ranked (#128); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and GPT-5 Mini share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Mini has 60.

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