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gemini-3-pro

227 days in first place

It held first place on Arena in Text (82 days), WebDev (10 days) and Vision (135 days).

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Who held first place

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Credits LMArena.

The open-weights catch-up

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Credits LMArena.

The saturation clock

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Credits Epoch AI.

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This page

Jesse Hawkins, “gemini-3-pro · Frontier”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 30 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gemini-3-pro/. Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

@misc{hawkins2026frontiergemini3pro,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{gemini-3-pro · Frontier}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gemini-3-pro/}},
  note = {Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities \& benchmarking, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-30}
}

Arena · LMArena

LMArena, "Arena leaderboard dataset", Hugging Face, revision 4491b06. https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset. CC BY 4.0.

Benchmarks · Epoch AI

Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource]. CC BY 4.0.

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Text: 82 days in first place

place 22 of 419 on 28 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 16 November 2025 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1479 (1476–1483) on 28 October 2026 · 42,057 votes
First place: 16 November 2025 to 6 February 2026 · 82 days
Catch-up: Open weights matched it on 25 September 2026, 313 days after it first took first place: mimo-v2.6-pro.

WebDev: 10 days in first place

place 83 of 152 on 28 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 16 November 2025 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1440 (1432–1448) on 28 October 2026 · 14,054 votes
First place: 16 November 2025 to 26 November 2025 · 10 days
Catch-up: Open weights matched it on 12 February 2026, 88 days after it first took first place: glm-5.

Vision: 135 days in first place

place 16 of 167 on 19 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 16 November 2025 to 19 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1305 (1297–1312) on 19 October 2026 · 13,623 votes
First place: 16 November 2025 to 31 March 2026 · 135 days
Catch-up: No open-weights model has matched it in the 337 days since it first took first place.

Epoch AI: Gemini 3 Pro

released 18 November 2025 · API access

FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private 37.6%
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private 18.8%
GPQA diamond 92.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 91.4%
SWE-Bench verified 72.9%

Sources

Arena scores come from people voting between two anonymous answers. First place is the highest score; the top two are often within each other’s margin of error. LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, retrieved 30 October 2026; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, retrieved 30 October 2026. Both CC BY 4.0.