Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-4.1 nano

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.9

Rank #327 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 10 categories and GPT-4.1 nano in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 8.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 75% for Gemini 3 Pro and 0% for GPT-4.1 nano.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-4.1 nano specifications
Gemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.827.9
Released2025-11-182025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked6738

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GPT-4.1 nano: 24.1 (#330)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
WeirdML69.9%19%
LMArena Coding14811306
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—25.9%
GSO18.6%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.5 (#104)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%33%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
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—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.5 (#349)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
ARC-AGI-231.1%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%33.3%
ARC-AGI-175%0%
CritPt6.9%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801286
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92129.62
SimpleBench76.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
DTBench—52.5%
LMCA—5.5%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.9 (#252)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%28.9%
Omni-MATH55.5%36.7%
LMArena Math14761274
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
MATH Level 5—70%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond92.6%48.9%
MMLU-Pro90.3%55%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%50.7%
LMArena Expert14751272
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GPT-4.1 nano: 29.2 (#113)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision13051063
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GPT-4.1 nano: 41.6 (#205)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English14741260
LMArena Chinese15231270
LMArena German15151288
LMArena Japanese15101198
LMArena Russian14931261
LMArena French1492—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GPT-4.1 nano: 67.8 (#193)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
IFEval87.7%84.3%
LMArena Instruction Following14581267

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#296)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Longer Query14711283
Fiction.LiveBench—25%
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GPT-4.1 nano: 40.5 (#243)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text14791285
LMArena Creative Writing14821260
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525946
WildBench85.9%81.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn14841277

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-4.1 nano?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-4.1 nano better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 24.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-4.1 nano share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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