Compare · ModelsLive · 2 picked · head to head

Gemini 3 Pro vs gpt-oss-20b

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Gemini 3 Pro wins 11 of 12 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · arena · knowledge.

Category leads
speed·Gemini 3 Proarena·Gemini 3 Proknowledge·Gemini 3 Prolanguage·Gemini 3 Promath·gpt-oss-20breasoning·Gemini 3 Procoding·Gemini 3 Pro
Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Pro
#71 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
gpt-oss-20b
#97 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Gemini 3 Pro
n/a
no price
gpt-oss-20b
983.3 pts/$
$0.05/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 3 Progpt-oss-20b
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +32.3
Gemini 3 Pro
41.3
gpt-oss-20b
9.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +167.9
Gemini 3 Pro
1485.5
gpt-oss-20b
1317.6
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +27.4
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3 Pro
27.4
gpt-oss-20b
0.0
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +42.4
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 3 Pro
90.2
gpt-oss-20b
47.7
HELM · GPQA
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +20.9
Gemini 3 Pro
80.3
gpt-oss-20b
59.4
HELM · IFEval
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +14.4
Gemini 3 Pro
87.6
gpt-oss-20b
73.2
HELM · MMLU-Pro
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +16.3
Gemini 3 Pro
90.3
gpt-oss-20b
74.0
HELM · Omni-MATH
gpt-oss-20b leads by +0.9
Gemini 3 Pro
55.6
gpt-oss-20b
56.5
HELM · WildBench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +12.2
Gemini 3 Pro
85.9
gpt-oss-20b
73.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +26.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3 Pro
91.4
gpt-oss-20b
65.2
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +66.0
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 Pro
69.4
gpt-oss-20b
3.4
WeirdML
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +29.0
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3 Pro
69.9
gpt-oss-20b
40.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 Progpt-oss-20b
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
41.39.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1485.51317.6
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
27.40.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
90.247.7
HELM · GPQA
80.359.4
HELM · IFEval
87.673.2
HELM · MMLU-Pro
90.374.0
HELM · Omni-MATH
55.656.5
HELM · WildBench
85.973.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
91.465.2
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.
69.43.4
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
69.940.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Pro————
OpenAI logogpt-oss-20b$0.02$0.09131K tokens (~66 books)$0.36