Verdict
Gemini 3 Pro leads 10–6 across 16 shared benchmarks.
Gemini 3 Flash 6 · Gemini 3 Pro 10 · higher isn't always better — check the caveats below.
Reported scores — protocols may differ. How we compare
Reasoning: Gemini 3 Pro leads 3–1 across 4 shared reasoning benchmarks (largest gap: SimpleBench, 71.68 vs 53.32 — single evaluator).
Game Playing: Evenly split 1–1 across 2 shared game playing benchmarks (largest gap: Balrog, 58.1 vs 48.1 — single evaluator).
Vendor claims — compare against the measured scores above. A claim is what a developer says about its own model, not an independent measurement.
No vendor claims on file for Gemini 3 Flash.
Context Handling
“state-of-the-art reasoning, vision and spatial understanding, leading multilingual performance, and 1 million-token context window”
Multimodal
“It's the best model in the world for multimodal understanding and our most powerful agentic and vibe coding model yet”
Reasoning
“It's state-of-the-art in reasoning, built to grasp depth and nuance”
Gemini 3 Pro leads 10–6 across 16 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3 Flash leads 6 benchmarks and Gemini 3 Pro leads 10. Higher isn't always better — see the integrity caveats on each benchmark.
Gemini 3 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro have 16 benchmarks in common in our data — those are the only rows where a direct, apples-to-apples comparison is drawn.
Gemini 3 Pro leads reasoning 3–1.