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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Trinity Large Thinking

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index. Trinity Large Thinking costs 2.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI

38.6

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 8 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 16.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 83.1% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 16.5% for Trinity Large Thinking.
  • Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.80 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Trinity Large Thinking has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
ProviderGoogleArcee AI
Noometry Index52.338.6
Released2025-12-172026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K80K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.80
Results tracked5924

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.1 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena WebDev14391238
LMArena Coding14601381
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
SciCode—36.1%
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Trinity Large Thinking: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.9 (#298)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%16.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14651350
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
CritPt—0.9%
Chess Puzzles40%—
Thematic Generalization—41.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench89.1%—
LMCA43.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Trinity Large Thinking: 37.6 (#149)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Math14731366
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench15%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.9 (#113)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%6.9%
LMArena Expert14621360
GPQA Diamond89.4%—
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Trinity Large Thinking: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.2 (#160)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Non-English14581325
LMArena Chinese15111373
LMArena French14771374
LMArena German14971356
LMArena Japanese14891311
LMArena Korean14431306
LMArena Russian14801337
LMArena Spanish14691357

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.5 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Instruction Following14371334

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.3 (#144)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Longer Query14521355

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Trinity Large Thinking: 53.8 (#158)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Text14661340
LMArena Creative Writing14571320
LMArena Multi-Turn14711342

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index. Trinity Large Thinking costs 2.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Trinity Large Thinking?

Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Trinity Large Thinking share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.

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