Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Llama 3.1-405B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.4

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 16.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 9.7% for Llama 3.1-405B.
  • Llama 3.1-405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
Gemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.730.4
Released2025-11-182024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked6742

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), Llama 3.1-405B: 32.7 (#257)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
WeirdML69.9%21.4%
LMArena Coding14821291
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), Llama 3.1-405B: 20.9 (#131)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
Cybench—7.5%
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.4 (#293)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
SimpleBench76.4%23%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%45%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811270
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96128.76
ForecastBench61.259.9
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
DTBench—61.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
HellaSwag—89.2%
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), Llama 3.1-405B: 17.3 (#283)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%9.7%
Omni-MATH55.5%24.9%
LMArena Math14751281
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
MATH Level 5—49.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#221)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
GPQA Diamond92.6%50.9%
MMLU-Pro90.3%72.3%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%52.2%
LMArena Expert14751243
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
Confabulations—17.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
MMLU—84.5%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), Llama 3.1-405B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.9 (#209)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English14741248
LMArena Chinese15221242
LMArena French14921278
LMArena German15171252
LMArena Japanese15131208
LMArena Korean14491184
LMArena Russian14931265
LMArena Spanish14681259

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), Llama 3.1-405B: 66.1 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
IFEval87.7%81.1%
LMArena Instruction Following14581259

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#192)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query14721266
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), Llama 3.1-405B: 39.1 (#246)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text14791284
LMArena Creative Writing14821262
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525870
WildBench85.9%78.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn14841297

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Llama 3.1-405B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 32.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Llama 3.1-405B share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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