Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs o3-mini

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

o3-mini OpenAI

36.7

Rank #212 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 9 categories and o3-mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 28.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 27.1% for Gemini 4 Argon and 0.3% for o3-mini.

Side by side

Gemini 4 Argono3-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index56.536.7
Released2026-09-302024-12-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.10
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked2151

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), o3-mini: 40.8 (#132)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
SciCode61.8%39.8%
LMArena Coding15501378
Aider Polyglot—60.4%
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
GSO—1.3%
WeirdML—43.7%
LiveBench Coding—82.7%
CadEval—54%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), o3-mini: 29.6 (#84)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Cybench—22.5%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), o3-mini: 16.3 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
CritPt27.1%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts15481366
ARC-AGI-2—3%
SimpleBench—22.8%
ARC-AGI-1—34.5%
Chess Puzzles—17%
LiveBench Reasoning—89.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—70.6%
LMCA—19%
Epoch Capabilities Index—140.34
ForecastBench—59.6
LiveBench—75.9%

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), o3-mini: 28.1 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
LMArena Math15361396
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—76.9%
ProofBench99%—
LiveBench Math—77.3%
MATH Level 5—96.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—12.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), o3-mini: 38.3 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
LMArena Expert15531364
GPQA Diamond—77%
SimpleQA Verified—15.3%
Confabulations—17.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), o3-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), o3-mini: 45.7 (#164)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
LMArena Non-English15231319
LMArena Chinese16101379
LMArena Russian15371304
LMArena Spanish14971321
LMArena French—1334
LMArena German—1303
LMArena Japanese—1286
LMArena Korean—1314

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), o3-mini: 75.1 (#72)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
LMArena Instruction Following15381337
LiveBench Instruction Following—84.4%

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), o3-mini: 33.8 (#256)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
LMArena Longer Query15491343
Fiction.LiveBench—50%

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), o3-mini: 50.3 (#182)

BenchmarkGemini 4 Argono3-mini
LMArena Text15341337
LMArena Creative Writing15311286
LMArena Multi-Turn15571320
Short-Story Creative Writing—61.7%
LiveBench Language—50.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than o3-mini?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or o3-mini better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and o3-mini share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.

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