Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Gemini 3 Pro
Verdict
- Gemini 3.1 Pro leads on quality: 64.0 vs 61.7.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, instruction following, knowledge, long context, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
- Gemini 3 Pro is stronger in human preference.
- They cost about the same ($4.50 per 1M blended).
| Metric | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 64.0 | 61.7 |
| Agents & tools score | 63.7 | 62.3 |
| Coding score | 59.9 | 58.9 |
| Composite score | 67.4 | 64.3 |
| Human preference score | 59.9 | 69.0 |
| Instruction following score | 69.6 | 64.3 |
| Knowledge score | 66.2 | 60.9 |
| Long context score | 67.6 | 64.5 |
| Maths score | 60.7 | 48.4 |
| Multimodal score | 66.2 | 65.7 |
| Reasoning score | 69.8 | 67.1 |
| Blended price $/M | $4.50 | $4.50 |
| Output speed | 108 tok/s | – |
| Time to first answer | 30.5 s | – |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1M |
| GPQA Diamond | 94.1% | 92.6% |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | 59.6% | – |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 26.8% | – |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 95.6% | 91.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch) | – | 72.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 46.4% | 37.5% |
| Terminal-Bench | 80.2% | 69.4% |
| SimpleBench | 79.6% | 76.4% |
| GDPval | – | 40.3% |
| SciCode | 58.9% | – |
| Remote Labor Index | – | 1.3% |
| WeirdML | 72.1% | 69.9% |
| APEX-Agents | 33.5% | 31.5% |
| ProofBench | 26.0% | 20.0% |
| GSO-Bench | 22.6% | 18.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155 | 153.0 |
| LMArena Text | 1487 | 1486 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1507 | 1504 |
| LMArena Coding | 1521 | 1518 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1447 | 1439 |
| LMArena Vision | 1295 | 1305 |
| LMArena Agent | -5.3 | – |
| AA Intelligence Index | 30.4 | 28.0 |
| IFBench | 77.1% | 70.4% |
| AA-LCR | 82.0% | 76.0% |
| MMMU-Pro | 82.4% | 80.2% |
| AA-Omniscience | 31.9 | 15.3 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 53.8% | 41.7% |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 94.1% | 90.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 47.0% | 39.7% |
| SciCode (AA) | 58.7% | – |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 95.6% | 87.1% |
| LiveCodeBench | – | 86.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | – | 90.1% |
| AIME 2026 | 98.3% | 91.7% |
| HMMT February 2026 | 94.7% | 86.4% |
| MathArena Apex | 60.9% | 23.4% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | – | 43.3% |
| MCP Atlas | – | 70.3% |
| MultiChallenge | 71.4% | 65.7% |
| PRBench Finance | 41.9% | 39.2% |
| PRBench Legal | 44.0% | 40.6% |
| VISTA | – | 51.5% |
| MultiNRC | 64.7% | 59.0% |
| HiL-Bench | 35.3% | – |
| TutorBench | 53.0% | 53.7% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1142 | – |
| MMMU-Pro (official) | – | 81.0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | – | 80.1% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | – | 74.2% |
| SWE-bench Verified (any scaffold) | – | 77.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.0% | 75.0% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 77.1% | 54.0% |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.4% | – |
| BFCL Overall | – | 72.5% |
Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Gemini 3 Pro: questions
- Is Gemini 3.1 Pro better than Gemini 3 Pro?
- Gemini 3.1 Pro leads on quality: 64.0 vs 61.7. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Gemini 3.1 Pro is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is Gemini 3.1 Pro better than Gemini 3 Pro for coding?
- Gemini 3.1 Pro scores higher in coding (60 vs 59 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is Gemini 3.1 Pro better than Gemini 3 Pro for agentic tasks?
- Gemini 3.1 Pro scores higher in agentic tasks (64 vs 62 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Gemini 3 Pro?
- Gemini 3.1 Pro is cheaper: $4.50 against $4.50 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Gemini 3.1 Pro accepts more context: 1.0M against 1M tokens.