Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 50.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 56 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 56 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-5 in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-5 leads 69.5 to 44.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BALROG: 58.1% for Gemini 3 Pro and 32.8% for GPT-5.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5 specifications
Gemini 3 ProGPT-5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.850.9
Released2025-11-182025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked6769

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GPT-5: 50.3 (#47)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5
SWE-bench Verified72.9%73.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%65%
LMArena WebDev14401418
GSO18.6%6.9%
WeirdML69.9%60.7%
LMArena Coding14811436
ALE-Bench1,1771,162
AlgoTune1.831.67
Aider Polyglot—88%
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—42.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GPT-5: 33.1 (#56)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5
Terminal-Bench69.4%49.6%
GDPval40.3%34.8%
Remote Labor Index1.3%1.7%
DeepResearch Bench46.3%49.6%
BALROG58.1%32.8%
LMArena Search12071133
METR Time Horizons71%69.6%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GPT-5: 38.3 (#64)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5
ARC-AGI-231.1%9.9%
SimpleBench76.4%56.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%72.7%
ARC-AGI-175%65.7%
CritPt6.9%12.6%
Chess Puzzles31%37%
EnigmaEval18.2%10.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801416
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92150
ForecastBench61.261.4
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
EBR-Bench—12.7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.7%
LMCA—40%

Math GPT-5 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GPT-5: 55.0 (#44)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GPT-5: 56.6 (#43)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5
GPQA Diamond92.6%86.2%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%25.3%
MMLU-Pro90.3%86.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%14.7%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%79.2%
LMArena Expert14751419
SimpleQA Verified—50.1%
Confabulations—10.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GPT-5: 46.8 (#13)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5
LMArena Vision13051232
GeoBench84%81%
VPCT91%66%
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GPT-5: 51.4 (#110)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5
LMArena Non-English14741397
LMArena Chinese15231422
LMArena French14921410
LMArena German15151416
LMArena Japanese15101409
LMArena Korean14481360
LMArena Russian14931406
LMArena Spanish14701399

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GPT-5: 73.8 (#113)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5
IFEval87.7%87.5%
LMArena Instruction Following14581388

Long Context GPT-5 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GPT-5: 69.5 (#2)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5
LMArena Longer Query14711399
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GPT-5: 63.4 (#65)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5
LMArena Text14791406
LMArena Creative Writing14821365
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251627
WildBench85.9%85.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn14841426
Short-Story Creative Writing—86%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-5?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 50.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 50.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5 share?

56 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 has 69.

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