BenchLeader

Gemini 3 Pro vs Grok 4.6

Verdict
  • Grok 4.6 (medium) leads on quality: 63.9 vs 61.7.
  • Gemini 3 Pro is stronger in agents & tools, human preference, instruction following, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
  • Grok 4.6 (medium) is stronger in coding, composite, knowledge, long context.
  • Grok 4.6 (medium) is 1.5× cheaper ($3.00 vs $4.50 per 1M blended).
MetricGemini 3 ProGrok 4.6 (medium)
BenchLeader Index61.763.9
Agents & tools score62.3
Coding score58.964.1
Composite score64.383.4
Human preference score69.0
Instruction following score64.3
Knowledge score60.977.5
Long context score64.567.1
Maths score48.4
Multimodal score65.7
Reasoning score67.162.1
Blended price $/M$4.50$3.00
Output speed53 tok/s
Time to first answer33.4 s
Context window1M500k
GPQA Diamond92.6%
OTIS Mock AIME91.4%
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch)72.9%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%
Terminal-Bench69.4%
SimpleBench76.4%
GDPval40.3%
SciCode54.6%
Remote Labor Index1.3%
WeirdML69.9%
APEX-Agents31.5%
ProofBench20.0%
GSO-Bench18.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.0
LMArena Text1486
LMArena Hard Prompts1504
LMArena Coding1518
LMArena WebDev1439
LMArena Vision1305
AA Intelligence Index28.043.0
IFBench70.4%
AA-LCR76.0%81.0%
MMMU-Pro80.2%
AA-Omniscience15.328
Terminal-Bench Hard41.7%
GPQA Diamond (AA)90.8%93.5%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)39.7%42.1%
SciCode (AA)55.9%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)87.1%
LiveCodeBench86.4%
MMLU-Pro90.1%
AIME 202691.7%
HMMT February 202686.4%
MathArena Apex23.4%
SWE-Bench Pro43.3%
MCP Atlas70.3%
MultiChallenge65.7%
PRBench Finance39.2%
PRBench Legal40.6%
VISTA51.5%
MultiNRC59.0%
TutorBench53.7%
MMMU-Pro (official)81.0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%
SWE-bench Verified (any scaffold)77.4%
ARC-AGI-175.0%87.5%
ARC-AGI-254.0%61.3%
BFCL Overall72.5%

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 Grok 4.6: questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Grok 4.6?
Grok 4.6 (medium) leads on quality: 63.9 vs 61.7. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Grok 4.6 (medium) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Grok 4.6 for coding?
Grok 4.6 scores higher in coding (64 vs 59 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Pro or Grok 4.6?
Grok 4.6 is cheaper: $3.00 against $4.50 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which has the larger context window?
Gemini 3 Pro accepts more context: 1M against 500k tokens.