# Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Step 3

> Step 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-step-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Step 3 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Step 3 leads 28.4 to 12.3.
- Step 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | StepFun |
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 40.5 |
| Rank | 261 | 149 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)
- Step 3: 40.1 (#147)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | 1367 |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)
- Step 3: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)
- Step 3: 28.4 (#105)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | 1355 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 62.3% |
| DTBench | 59% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)
- Step 3: 37.6 (#148)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1315 | 1366 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)
- Step 3: 36.8 (#164)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | 1333 |
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)
- Step 3: 35.5 (#86)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | 1177 |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)
- Step 3: 46.3 (#159)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | 1327 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | 1397 |
| LMArena German | 1286 | 1371 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1269 |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | 1331 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1311 | 1371 |
| LMArena French | 1302 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)
- Step 3: 70.4 (#164)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1332 |
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)
- Step 3: 40.3 (#157)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | 1326 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)
- Step 3: 54.3 (#151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | 1350 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1321 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | 1341 |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Step 3?

Step 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Step 3 better for coding?

Step 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Step 3 share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Step 3 has 17.