Gemini 3 Flash Mini on GPQA Diamond: score, rank and what it means
Gemini 3 Flash Mini scores 73.8 on GPQA Diamond, placing it #174 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on GPQA Diamond, with Gemini 3 Flash Mini highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.98 | 87.5 |
| 2 | GPT-5.1 Max | OpenAI | 2000000 | $20.50 | 87.9 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 4 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 6 | GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.71 | 88.0 |
| 7 | o4 Turbo | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.34 | 86.6 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 9 | Grok 4 Turbo | xAI | 1000000 | $19.21 | 86.7 |
| 10 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $19.90 | 87.2 |
What this score means
On GPQA Diamond, Gemini 3 Flash Mini sits at #174 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Reasoning, scores 87.0, so the gap to the top is 13.2 points. The median model in this index scores 68.8, which puts Gemini 3 Flash Mini above the midpoint.
Google DeepMind models average 73.4 on this benchmark. Gemini 3 Flash Mini is 0.4 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Google DeepMind model.
Among multimodal models, the average is 73.5. Gemini 3 Flash Mini is 0.3 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 73.8 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $10.71 per million input tokens, Gemini 3 Flash Mini is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on GPQA Diamond. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunyuan-Turbo | Tencent | 128000 | $10.55 | 75.8 |
| Llama 3 Baseten Instruct | Baseten | 200000 | $3.91 | 76.2 |
| Nova Pro | Amazon | 32768 | $12.75 | 79.4 |
| Qwen3 Chat | Alibaba Cloud | 128000 | $4.75 | 79.1 |
| Gemini 3 Flash Mini | Google DeepMind | 200000 | $10.71 | 76.0 |
| Llama 3 Novita Instruct | Novita AI | 32768 | $3.94 | 75.6 |
| Magistral Instruct | Mistral AI | 65536 | $4.48 | 78.4 |
Other benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Mini
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8 | 216 | 64th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61.4 | 292 | 51th | |
| HumanEval | 80.1 | 229 | 62th | |
| MATH-500 | 78.9 | 237 | 61th | |
| AIME 2025 | 74.3 | 169 | 72th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 69.1 | 206 | 66th | |
| IFEval | 83.6 | 222 | 63th | |
| TruthfulQA | 79.8 | 186 | 69th | |
| HellaSwag | 84.1 | 275 | 54th | |
| MMMU | 72.6 | 229 | 62th | |
| Arena Elo | 1406.3 | 191 | 68th |
FAQ
What score does Gemini 3 Flash Mini get on GPQA Diamond?
Gemini 3 Flash Mini scores 73.8 on GPQA Diamond in this index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the top score is 87.0.
How does Gemini 3 Flash Mini rank on GPQA Diamond?
It ranks #174 of 600 models, in the 71st percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.
Is Gemini 3 Flash Mini good at GPQA Diamond?
Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the GPQA Diamond score calculated?
GPQA Diamond is a reasoning benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Gemini 3 Flash Mini cost?
Gemini 3 Flash Mini costs $10.71 per million input tokens and $48.11 per million output tokens.