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Gemini 3 Pro Mini on GPQA Diamond: score, rank and what it means

Gemini 3 Pro Mini scores 72.1 on GPQA Diamond, placing it #217 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Score
72.1
0–100 scale
Rank
#217
of 600
Percentile
64th
within the index
Benchmark avg
65.6
all models
Leader
87.0
GPT-5.2 Reasoning
Gap to leader
14.9
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on GPQA Diamond, with Gemini 3 Pro Mini highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Reasoning 87.0
GPT-5.1 Max 86.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 86.0
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 85.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.2
GPT-5.2 84.9
o4 Turbo 84.8
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 84.6
Grok 4 Turbo 84.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 84.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg 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 Pro Mini sits at #217 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Reasoning, scores 87.0, so the gap to the top is 14.9 points. The median model in this index scores 68.8, which puts Gemini 3 Pro Mini above the midpoint.

Google DeepMind models average 73.4 on this benchmark. Gemini 3 Pro Mini is 1.3 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Google DeepMind model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 73.5. Gemini 3 Pro Mini is 1.4 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 72.1 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 $12.27 per million input tokens, Gemini 3 Pro 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.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Qwen3-Coder Chat Alibaba Cloud 128000 $4.59 78.4
Magistral Chat Mistral AI 128000 $4.33 76.8
Seed-OSS Instruct ByteDance 128000 $3.79 76.0
Qwen3-Coder Base Alibaba Cloud 200000 $3.99 76.6
Gemini 3 Pro Mini Google DeepMind 128000 $12.27 78.1
Llama 3.1 Cerebras Instruct Cerebras 65536 $4.11 76.1
Hunyuan-Turbo Turbo Tencent 65536 $11.60 77.4

Other benchmarks for Gemini 3 Pro Mini

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 79.4 199 67th
SWE-bench Verified 68.0 146 76th
HumanEval 83.5 143 76th
MATH-500 81.3 182 70th
AIME 2025 77.5 121 80th
LiveCodeBench 70.8 175 71th
IFEval 86.2 149 75th
TruthfulQA 80.0 177 71th
HellaSwag 85.8 222 63th
MMMU 74.5 169 72th
Arena Elo 1419.9 149 75th

FAQ

What score does Gemini 3 Pro Mini get on GPQA Diamond?

Gemini 3 Pro Mini scores 72.1 on GPQA Diamond in this index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the top score is 87.0.

How does Gemini 3 Pro Mini rank on GPQA Diamond?

It ranks #217 of 600 models, in the 64th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Is Gemini 3 Pro 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 Pro Mini cost?

Gemini 3 Pro Mini costs $12.27 per million input tokens and $57.81 per million output tokens.

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