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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Gemini 3 Pro

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Winner summary

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 21 of 26 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · arena.

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Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
#137 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
Gemini 3 Pro
#71 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
6.9 pts/$
$7.00/M
Gemini 3 Pro
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
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Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
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Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 3 Pro
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +23.6
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
21.4
Gemini 3 Pro
45.0
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +29.5
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
68.8
Gemini 3 Pro
39.4
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +11.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
29.7
Gemini 3 Pro
41.3
APEX-Agents
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +16.9
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
35.3
Gemini 3 Pro
18.4
ARC-AGI
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +23.0
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
98.0
Gemini 3 Pro
75.0
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +46.0
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
77.1
Gemini 3 Pro
31.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +7.2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1446.2
Gemini 3 Pro
1439.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +1.5
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1487.0
Gemini 3 Pro
1485.5
Balrog
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +1.1
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
57.0
Gemini 3 Pro
58.1
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +25.3
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
52.6
Gemini 3 Pro
27.4
Cl Bench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +5.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
20.8
Gemini 3 Pro
15.8
DeepResearch Bench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +1.5
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
47.8
Gemini 3 Pro
46.3
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +29.1
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
36.9
Gemini 3 Pro
66.0
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +14.6
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
16.7
Gemini 3 Pro
31.3
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +2.4
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
92.6
Gemini 3 Pro
90.2
GSO-Bench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +3.9
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
22.6
Gemini 3 Pro
18.6
HLE
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +9.4
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
43.7
Gemini 3 Pro
34.4
Metr Time Horizons
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +6.1
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
77.0
Gemini 3 Pro
71.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +4.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
95.6
Gemini 3 Pro
91.4
PostTrainBench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +3.9
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
22.0
Gemini 3 Pro
18.1
Proofbench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +6.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
26.0
Gemini 3 Pro
20.0
SimpleBench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +3.8
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
75.5
Gemini 3 Pro
71.7
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +0.6
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
73.5
Gemini 3 Pro
72.9
SWE-Bench verified
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +2.7
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
75.6
Gemini 3 Pro
72.9
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +10.8
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
80.2
Gemini 3 Pro
69.4
WeirdML
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +2.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
72.1
Gemini 3 Pro
69.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 3 Pro
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
21.445.0
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
68.839.4
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
29.741.3
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
35.318.4
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
98.075.0
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
77.131.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1446.21439.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1487.01485.5
Balrog
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
57.058.1
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
52.627.4
Cl Bench
20.815.8
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
47.846.3
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
36.966.0
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
16.731.3
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
92.690.2
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
22.618.6
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
43.734.4
Metr Time Horizons
77.071.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
95.691.4
PostTrainBench
22.018.1
Proofbench
26.020.0
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
75.571.7
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
73.572.9
SWE-Bench verified
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
75.672.9
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
80.269.4
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
72.169.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3.1 Pro Preview$2.00$12.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$45.00
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Pro————