Verdict
Gemini 3 Pro leads 4–0 across 4 shared benchmarks.
Gemini 3 Pro 4 · Llama 3.1-405B 0 · higher isn't always better — check the caveats below.
Reported scores — protocols may differ. How we compare
Reasoning: Gemini 3 Pro leads 2–0 across 2 shared reasoning benchmarks (largest gap: SimpleBench, 71.68 vs 7.6 — 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.
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”
Context Handling
“These are multilingual and have a significantly longer context length of 128K, state-of-the-art tool use, and overall stronger reasoning capabilities.”
General
“Llama 3.1 405B is in a class of its own, with unmatched flexibility, control, and state-of-the-art capabilities that rival the best closed source models.”
“Llama 3.1 405B is the first openly available model that rivals the top AI models when it comes to state-of-the-art capabilities in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use”
Gemini 3 Pro leads 4–0 across 4 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3 Pro leads 4 benchmarks and Llama 3.1-405B leads 0. Higher isn't always better — see the integrity caveats on each benchmark.
Gemini 3 Pro and Llama 3.1-405B have 4 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 2–0.