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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs GPT-5.5 Instant

Verdict
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro leads on quality: 64.0 vs 60.5.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro is stronger in composite, long context, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
  • GPT-5.5 Instant is stronger in agents & tools, coding, human preference, instruction following, knowledge.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro is 2.5× cheaper ($4.50 vs $11.25 per 1M blended).
MetricGemini 3.1 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
BenchLeader Index64.060.5
Agents & tools score63.770.7
Coding score59.961.1
Composite score67.462.9
Human preference score59.967.5
Instruction following score69.669.8
Knowledge score66.269.4
Long context score67.661.4
Maths score60.742.5
Multimodal score66.259.7
Reasoning score69.862.6
Blended price $/M$4.50$11.25
Output speed108 tok/s129 tok/s
Time to first answer30.5 s16.8 s
Context window1.0M400k
GPQA Diamond94.1%82.5%
FrontierMath Tiers 1–359.6%26.3%
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%2.4%
OTIS Mock AIME95.6%68.1%
Humanity's Last Exam46.4%
Terminal-Bench80.2%
SimpleBench79.6%
SciCode58.9%48.6%
WeirdML72.1%
APEX-Agents33.5%
ProofBench26.0%
GSO-Bench22.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index155142.5
LMArena Text14871474
LMArena Hard Prompts15071491
LMArena Coding15211514
LMArena WebDev1447
LMArena Vision12951251
LMArena Agent-5.3
AA Intelligence Index30.426.8
IFBench77.1%71.5%
AA-LCR82.0%70.0%
MMMU-Pro82.4%
AA-Omniscience31.911.2
Terminal-Bench Hard53.8%42.4%
GPQA Diamond (AA)94.1%84.7%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)47.0%21.6%
SciCode (AA)58.7%52.5%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)95.6%49.4%
AIME 202698.3%
HMMT February 202694.7%
MathArena Apex60.9%
MultiChallenge71.4%
PRBench Finance41.9%
PRBench Legal44.0%
MultiNRC64.7%
HiL-Bench35.3%
TutorBench53.0%
EQ-Bench 41142
ARC-AGI-198.0%
ARC-AGI-277.1%
ARC-AGI-30.4%

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 GPT-5.5 Instant: questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro better than GPT-5.5 Instant?
Gemini 3.1 Pro leads on quality: 64.0 vs 60.5. 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 GPT-5.5 Instant for coding?
GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher in coding (61 vs 60 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is Gemini 3.1 Pro better than GPT-5.5 Instant for agentic tasks?
GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher in agentic tasks (71 vs 64 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro or GPT-5.5 Instant?
Gemini 3.1 Pro is cheaper: $4.50 against $11.25 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, Gemini 3.1 Pro or GPT-5.5 Instant?
GPT-5.5 Instant streams faster: 129 against 108 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Gemini 3.1 Pro accepts more context: 1.0M against 400k tokens.