Model comparison
Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.5 Instant
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and GPT-5.5 Instant in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 24.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 68.1% for GPT-5.5 Instant.
Side by side
| Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 54.7 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2025-11-18 | 2026-05-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 67 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.7 (#73)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1482 | 1433 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.9% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 74.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1439 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 68.7% | — |
| SciCode | — | 48.6% |
| GSO | 18.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 69.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,177 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.83 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), GPT-5.5 Instant: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 69.4% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 72.5% | — |
| GDPval | 40.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 80.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 18% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 75.9% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 91% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.3% | — |
| BALROG | 58.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1207 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 71% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,478 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.2 (#149)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 6.9% | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 31% | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | 1426 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.96 | 142.48 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | — |
| SimpleBench | 76.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.1% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 94.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 75% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 18.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.2 | — |
Math Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.1 (#241)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.4% | 68.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1475 | 1420 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 26.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 2.4% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67% | — |
| ProofBench | 20% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 55.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 37.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 18.8% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#68)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6% | 82.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1475 | 1409 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 90.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 13.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 80.3% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), GPT-5.5 Instant: 39.3 (#48)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | 1250 |
| LMArena Document | 1434 | 1403 |
| GeoBench | 84% | — |
| VPCT | 91% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), GPT-5.5 Instant: 53.0 (#76)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1474 | 1417 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1522 | 1457 |
| LMArena French | 1492 | 1428 |
| LMArena German | 1517 | 1410 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1513 | 1408 |
| LMArena Korean | 1449 | 1393 |
| LMArena Russian | 1493 | 1430 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1468 | 1430 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.4 (#94)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1458 | 1407 |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#92)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1472 | 1422 |
| CL-bench | 15.8% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), GPT-5.5 Instant: 62.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | 1419 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1482 | 1420 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1484 | 1434 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1525 | — |
| WildBench | 85.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-5.5 Instant?
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5.5 Instant better for coding?
Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 43.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.5 Instant share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Instant has 27.