Gemini 2.5 Pro vs o3-mini
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | OpenAI o3-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | OpenAI | |
| Release date | Mar 25 2025 | Jan 31 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 20% | — |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 59.6% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 86.4% | — |
Multimodal MMMUTests the AI on understanding images and text together across many college subjects. Higher is better. | 68% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | o3-mini shipped 53 days before Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
Which is better: Gemini 2.5 Pro or o3-mini?
Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3-mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. o3-mini shipped 53 days before Gemini 2.5 Pro, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3-mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Gemini 2.5 Pro was released by Google on Mar 25 2025.
o3-mini was released by OpenAI on Jan 31 2025.
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