Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-3.5-turbo

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

GPT-3.5-turbo OpenAI

23.2

Rank #350 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-3.5-turbo in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 6.3.

Side by side

Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-3.5-turbo specifications
Gemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index56.523.2
Released2026-09-302023-03-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—16K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked2144

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Coding15501136
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
SciCode61.8%—
WeirdML—3.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—39.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.6%
HumanEval+—70.7%
MBPP+—69.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
APEX-Agents82.2%—
METR Time Horizons—21.5%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts15481108
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
Mystery Game Puzzles—3%
DTBench—48.5%
LMCA—9.7%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—61.6%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—57%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.55
ForecastBench—50.4
WinoGrande—81.6%

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Math15361142
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.2%
ProofBench99%—
MATH Level 5—15.9%
GSM8K—57.8%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Expert15531070
GPQA Diamond—28%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.4%
BoolQ—87%
MMLU—71.4%
OpenBookQA—86%
TriviaQA—85.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Non-English15231108
LMArena Chinese16101075
LMArena Russian15371123
LMArena Spanish14971121
LMArena French—1118
LMArena German—1090
LMArena Japanese—1043
LMArena Korean—1019

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Instruction Following15381119

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Longer Query15491121

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Text15341125
LMArena Creative Writing15311092
LMArena Multi-Turn15571117
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—451

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than GPT-3.5-turbo?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or GPT-3.5-turbo better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 23.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-3.5-turbo share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-3.5-turbo has 44.

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