Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs o1

o1 has enough public results to be ranked (#143); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.3

Unranked Sparse

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 1 category and o1 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 27.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 96% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 30.7% for o1.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep Think and o1 specifications
Gemini 3 Deep Thinko1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index58.340.9
Released2026-02-122024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked352

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
LMArena Coding—1367
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
ARC-AGI-196%30.7%
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
SimpleBench—41.7%
CritPt25.7%—
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1371
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.91
LiveBench—75.7%

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
LiveBench Math—80.3%
LMArena Math—1388
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%
LMArena Expert—1361

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
LMArena Non-English—1358
LMArena Chinese—1394
LMArena French—1344
LMArena German—1337
LMArena Japanese—1346
LMArena Korean—1396
LMArena Russian—1356
LMArena Spanish—1345

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%
LMArena Instruction Following—1367

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1378

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep Thinko1
LMArena Text—1366
LMArena Creative Writing—1348
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1369
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than o1?

o1 has enough public results to be ranked (#143); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and o1 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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