Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.1

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 49.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 50 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 50 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 7 categories and GPT-5.1 in 3 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 50.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 80.3% for Gemini 3 Pro and 44.2% for GPT-5.1.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.1 specifications
Gemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.849.0
Released2025-11-182025-11-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked6763

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
SWE-bench Verified72.9%68%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%66%
LMArena WebDev14401395
GSO18.6%13.7%
WeirdML69.9%60.8%
LMArena Coding14811454
ALE-Bench1,1771,192
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—43.3%
LiveBench Coding—72.5%
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
Terminal-Bench69.4%47.6%
DeepResearch Bench46.3%42.8%
LMArena Search12071199
Vending-Bench 25,4781,473
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%—
BALROG58.1%—
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
ARC-AGI-231.1%17.6%
SimpleBench76.4%53.2%
ARC-AGI-175%72.8%
CritPt6.9%4.9%
Chess Puzzles31%32%
EnigmaEval18.2%11.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801457
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92149.64
ForecastBench61.258.1
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
LiveBench Reasoning—95.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—90.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—72.1%
LMCA—43.9%
LiveBench—78.8%

Math GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%88.6%
Omni-MATH55.5%46.4%
LMArena Math14761447
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%31%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%12.5%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
LiveBench Math—94.5%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
GPQA Diamond92.6%87.6%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%23.7%
MMLU-Pro90.3%57.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%10.9%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%44.2%
LMArena Expert14751470
SimpleQA Verified—48%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
LMArena Vision13051250
VPCT91%58.7%
LMArena Document14341403
GeoBench84%—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
LMArena Non-English14741431
LMArena Chinese15231495
LMArena French14921450
LMArena German15151438
LMArena Japanese15101453
LMArena Korean14481401
LMArena Russian14931435
LMArena Spanish14701433

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
IFEval87.7%93.5%
LMArena Instruction Following14581443
LiveBench Instruction Following—93.3%

Long Context GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
CL-bench15.8%23.7%
LMArena Longer Query14711447
CL-bench Life—17.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.1
LMArena Text14791443
LMArena Creative Writing14821427
WildBench85.9%86.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn14841450
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
LiveBench Language—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-5.1?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 49.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5.1 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 46.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.1 share?

50 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.1 has 63.

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