Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.2

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.7 vs 54.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 59 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #31 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 59 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and GPT-5.2 in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.2 leads 59.8 to 48.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 76.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 45.8% for GPT-5.2.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 specifications
Gemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.754.1
Released2025-11-182025-12-11
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.75
Output $ / M tokens—$14
Results tracked6767

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), GPT-5.2: 52.2 (#32)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
SWE-bench Verified72.9%73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%72.8%
LMArena WebDev14391415
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%66.7%
GSO18.6%27.4%
WeirdML69.9%72.2%
LMArena Coding14821447
ALE-Bench1,1771,294
AlgoTune1.832.05

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), GPT-5.2: 40.0 (#24)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
Terminal-Bench69.4%64.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%55.9%
GDPval40.3%49.7%
Remote Labor Index1.3%2.5%
τ²-bench Airline80.5%83%
τ²-bench Banking18%32.2%
τ²-bench Retail75.9%81.6%
τ²-bench Telecom91%89.7%
DeepResearch Bench46.3%41.1%
LMArena Search12071207
METR Time Horizons71%75.3%
Vending-Bench 25,4783,591
BALROG58.1%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), GPT-5.2: 50.1 (#33)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
ARC-AGI-231.1%52.9%
SimpleBench76.4%45.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%73.3%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%83.6%
ARC-AGI-175%86.2%
Chess Puzzles31%49%
EnigmaEval18.2%10.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811445
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96153.45
ForecastBench61.260.1
CritPt6.9%—
EBR-Bench—23%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—43.9%

Math GPT-5.2 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), GPT-5.2: 59.8 (#32)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), GPT-5.2: 59.2 (#29)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
GPQA Diamond92.6%91.4%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%27.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%8.4%
LMArena Expert14751445
SimpleQA Verified—37.1%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), GPT-5.2: 50.9 (#7)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
LMArena Vision13051268
VPCT91%84%
LMArena Document14341405
GeoBench84%—
Furniture Assembly—38.3%

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), GPT-5.2: 53.6 (#63)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
LMArena Non-English14741425
LMArena Chinese15221460
LMArena French14921456
LMArena German15171448
LMArena Japanese15131421
LMArena Korean14491390
LMArena Russian14931440
LMArena Spanish14681433

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), GPT-5.2: 74.9 (#83)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following14581417
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#74)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
CL-bench15.8%18.2%
LMArena Longer Query14721428

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), GPT-5.2: 67.0 (#30)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.2
LMArena Text14791439
LMArena Creative Writing14821402
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251703
LMArena Multi-Turn14841458
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-5.2?

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.7 vs 54.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5.2 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (52.1 vs 52.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 share?

59 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 has 67.

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