Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.6 Terra

GPT-5.6 Terra is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.2 to 54.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 36 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI

59.2

Rank #17 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 36 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and GPT-5.6 Terra in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Terra leads 81.6 to 49.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 20% for Gemini 3 Pro and 74% for GPT-5.6 Terra.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.6 Terra specifications
Gemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.859.2
Released2025-11-182026-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$12
Results tracked6752

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Terra leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GPT-5.6 Terra: 57.7 (#19)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena WebDev14401522
WeirdML69.9%78.3%
LMArena Coding14811484
ALE-Bench1,1771,951
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
DeepSWE—69.6%
FrontierCode—41.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
CursorBench—41.3%
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—55%
GSO18.6%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GPT-5.6 Terra: 40.1 (#25)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
BALROG58.1%53.2%
Vending-Bench 25,4787,343
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
APEX-Agents—58.2%
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%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
GDP.pdf—24.7%
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Terra leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GPT-5.6 Terra: 60.7 (#21)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
ARC-AGI-231.1%83.9%
SimpleBench76.4%48.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%51.3%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%78.4%
ARC-AGI-175%96.5%
CritPt6.9%30%
Chess Puzzles31%54%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801468
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92159.62
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—35%
DTBench—93.3%
LMCA—55%
Surface Evolver Bench—83.8%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math GPT-5.6 Terra leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GPT-5.6 Terra: 81.6 (#12)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GPT-5.6 Terra: 61.2 (#30)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
GPQA Diamond92.6%93.3%
LMArena Expert14751492
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—43.2%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GPT-5.6 Terra: 47.3 (#11)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Vision13051271
LMArena Document14341472
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—30.8%
Furniture Assembly—54.2%

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GPT-5.6 Terra: 54.4 (#44)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Non-English14741439
LMArena Chinese15231513
LMArena French14921471
LMArena German15151460
LMArena Japanese15101457
LMArena Korean14481425
LMArena Russian14931450
LMArena Spanish14701448

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GPT-5.6 Terra: 76.4 (#40)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Instruction Following14581454
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GPT-5.6 Terra: 44.4 (#68)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Longer Query14711451
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Terra leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GPT-5.6 Terra: 70.2 (#23)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Text14791447
LMArena Creative Writing14821410
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251855
LMArena Multi-Turn14841449
WildBench85.9%—
EQ-Bench 4—1234

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-5.6 Terra?

GPT-5.6 Terra is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.2 to 54.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5.6 Terra better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Terra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 51.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.6 Terra share?

36 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Terra has 52.

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