Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.5
Gemini 3 Pro 
GPT-5.5 Verdict
- GPT-5.5 leads on quality: 66.7 vs 61.7.
- Gemini 3 Pro is stronger in coding, human preference, maths, multimodal.
- GPT-5.5 is stronger in agents & tools, composite, instruction following, knowledge, long context, reasoning.
- Gemini 3 Pro is 2.5× cheaper ($4.50 vs $11.25 per 1M blended).
| Metric | Gemini 3 Pro | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 61.7 | 66.7 |
| Agents & tools score | 62.3 | 68.5 |
| Coding score | 58.9 | 57.2 |
| Composite score | 64.3 | 77.8 |
| Human preference score | 69.0 | 67.9 |
| Instruction following score | 64.3 | 73.6 |
| Knowledge score | 60.9 | 73.9 |
| Long context score | 64.5 | 68.8 |
| Maths score | 48.4 | – |
| Multimodal score | 65.7 | 64.9 |
| Reasoning score | 67.1 | 70.1 |
| Blended price $/M | $4.50 | $11.25 |
| Output speed | – | 85 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | – | 58.6 s |
| Context window | 1M | 1.1M |
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6% | – |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 91.4% | – |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch) | 72.9% | – |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5% | – |
| Terminal-Bench | 69.4% | 84.7% |
| SimpleBench | 76.4% | 69.0% |
| GDPval | 40.3% | – |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.3% | 6.3% |
| WeirdML | 69.9% | – |
| APEX-Agents | 31.5% | 38.5% |
| FrontierCode | – | 43.0% |
| ProofBench | 20.0% | – |
| GSO-Bench | 18.6% | – |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 153.0 | 159.1 |
| LMArena Text | 1486 | 1477 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1504 | 1498 |
| LMArena Coding | 1518 | 1509 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1439 | 1458 |
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | 1296 |
| LMArena Agent | – | 3 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 28.0 | 38.6 |
| IFBench | 70.4% | 75.8% |
| AA-LCR | 76.0% | 84.3% |
| MMMU-Pro | 80.2% | 79.9% |
| AA-Omniscience | 15.3 | 20.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 41.7% | 60.6% |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 90.8% | 93.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 39.7% | 45.8% |
| SciCode (AA) | – | 55.8% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 87.1% | 93.9% |
| LiveCodeBench | 86.4% | – |
| MMLU-Pro | 90.1% | – |
| AIME 2026 | 91.7% | – |
| HMMT February 2026 | 86.4% | – |
| MathArena Apex | 23.4% | – |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 43.3% | – |
| MCP Atlas | 70.3% | – |
| MultiChallenge | 65.7% | – |
| PRBench Finance | 39.2% | – |
| PRBench Legal | 40.6% | – |
| VISTA | 51.5% | – |
| MultiNRC | 59.0% | – |
| HiL-Bench | – | 39.7% |
| TutorBench | 53.7% | – |
| EQ-Bench 4 | – | 1315 |
| MMMU-Pro (official) | 81.0% | – |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.1% | 88.8% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 74.2% | – |
| SWE-bench Verified (any scaffold) | 77.4% | – |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 75.0% | – |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 54.0% | – |
| 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 Pro vs GPT-5.5: questions
- Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-5.5?
- GPT-5.5 leads on quality: 66.7 vs 61.7. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-5.5 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-5.5 for coding?
- Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in coding (59 vs 57 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GPT-5.5 for agentic tasks?
- GPT-5.5 scores higher in agentic tasks (69 vs 62 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5.5?
- Gemini 3 Pro is cheaper: $4.50 against $11.25 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which has the larger context window?
- GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.1M against 1M tokens.