Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#12); 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-6 Sol OpenAI

61.8

Rank #12 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Sol in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Sol leads 74.0 to 70.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 25.7% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 30.9% for GPT-6 Sol.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep Think and GPT-6 Sol specifications
Gemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index58.361.8
Released2026-02-122026-09-22
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked345

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
DeepSWE—68.8%
FrontierCode—49.3%
LMArena WebDev—1688
SciCode—57.6%
LMArena Coding—1447
ALE-Bench—2,462

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
APEX-Agents—54.3%
GDP.pdf—26.4%
Vending-Bench 2—14,428

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14), GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
ARC-AGI-284.6%89.6%
ARC-AGI-196%95.5%
CritPt25.7%30.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—90.1%
EBR-Bench—53.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1418
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
DTBench—97.3%
LMCA—59.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—162.72

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—90%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—83%
LMArena Math—1402

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
GPQA Diamond—94.3%
SimpleQA Verified—60.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.5%
LMArena Expert—1439

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Vision—1245
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.9%
Furniture Assembly—58.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Non-English—1385
LMArena Chinese—1405
LMArena French—1410
LMArena German—1390
LMArena Japanese—1385
LMArena Korean—1341
LMArena Russian—1401
LMArena Spanish—1384

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following—1412

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query—1411

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Text—1395
LMArena Creative Writing—1378
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—2125
LMArena Multi-Turn—1412

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than GPT-6 Sol?

GPT-6 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#12); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and GPT-6 Sol share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Sol has 45.

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