Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-3.5-turbo

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 23.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

GPT-3.5-turbo OpenAI

23.1

Rank #345 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-3.5-turbo in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.3 to 10.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 2.2% for GPT-3.5-turbo.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-3.5-turbo specifications
Gemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.723.1
Released2025-11-182023-03-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—16K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked6744

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.5 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
WeirdML69.9%3.5%
LMArena Coding14821137
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—39.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.6%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—
HumanEval+—70.7%
MBPP+—69.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
METR Time Horizons71%21.5%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.3 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
Chess Puzzles31%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811108
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96118.48
ForecastBench61.250.4
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—3%
DTBench—48.5%
LMCA—9.7%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—61.6%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—57%
WinoGrande—81.6%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.0 (#321)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%2.2%
LMArena Math14751142
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
MATH Level 5—15.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—
GSM8K—57.8%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
GPQA Diamond92.6%28%
LMArena Expert14751070
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.4%
BoolQ—87%
MMLU—71.4%
OpenBookQA—86%
TriviaQA—85.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.6 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Non-English14741108
LMArena Chinese15221075
LMArena French14921117
LMArena German15171090
LMArena Japanese15131043
LMArena Korean14491019
LMArena Russian14931123
LMArena Spanish14681120

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), GPT-3.5-turbo: 58.1 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Instruction Following14581119
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#249)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Longer Query14721121
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.4 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Text14791125
LMArena Creative Writing14821092
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525451
LMArena Multi-Turn14841117
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-3.5-turbo?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 23.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-3.5-turbo better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 23.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-3.5-turbo share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GPT-3.5-turbo has 44.

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