Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Grok 4.3

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Grok 4.3 xAI

43.8

Rank #86 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 10 categories and Grok 4.3 in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 57.6 to 31.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 94.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 55.2% for Grok 4.3.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Grok 4.3 specifications
Gemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
ProviderGooglexAI
Noometry Index54.843.8
Released2025-11-182026-04-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—30K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2.50
Results tracked6740

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Grok 4.3: 41.6 (#121)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
LMArena WebDev14401357
WeirdML69.9%49.9%
LMArena Coding14811415
ALE-Bench1,177944.17
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—47.3%
GSO18.6%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Grok 4.3: 27.7 (#99)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
LMArena Search12071165
Vending-Bench 25,47835.26
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
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%—
BALROG58.1%—
GDP.pdf—8%
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Grok 4.3: 35.9 (#68)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%55.2%
CritPt6.9%8%
Chess Puzzles31%25%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801396
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92149.16
ForecastBench61.260.3
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
DTBench—90.7%
LMCA—38.3%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Grok 4.3: 46.0 (#74)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Grok 4.3: 52.5 (#62)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
GPQA Diamond92.6%88.8%
LMArena Expert14751385
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—33.2%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Grok 4.3: 31.6 (#104)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
LMArena Vision13051229
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—0%
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Grok 4.3: 50.5 (#120)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
LMArena Non-English14741385
LMArena Chinese15231422
LMArena French14921412
LMArena German15151395
LMArena Japanese15101379
LMArena Korean14481356
LMArena Russian14931399
LMArena Spanish14701398

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Grok 4.3: 72.1 (#140)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
LMArena Instruction Following14581366
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Grok 4.3: 42.5 (#123)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
LMArena Longer Query14711393
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Grok 4.3: 58.5 (#118)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGrok 4.3
LMArena Text14791397
LMArena Creative Writing14821380
LMArena Multi-Turn14841406
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
EQ-Bench 4—1075

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Grok 4.3?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Grok 4.3 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 41.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Grok 4.3 share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.3 has 40.

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