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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs O3 Mini

The readout for Gemini 2.5 Pro and O3 Mini, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Key Takeaways

Weighted outcome: O3 Mini. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Decision read

O3 Mini

O3 Mini has the higher weighted result; Model A / B score 38.7 to 61.3.

Evidence depth

102 data points

Includes 18 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 10 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with O3 Mini

The charts below split 28 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

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Comparison sheet

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Gemini 2.5 Pro and O3 Mini: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Model compare
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3 Mini
Overall leaderContenderLeading
Weighted overall score38.7 pts61.3 pts
Benchmark category leads2 categories4 categories
Operational advantagesAverage speed, Free providers, Provider coverageCheapest input price, First-token latency
Context window1.0M tokens200K tokens
Max output65.5K tokens100K tokens
Modalities

Input

TextImageFileAudiovideo

Output

Text

Input

TextFile

Output

Text
Features
Text inputImage inputFile inputAudio inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeReasoning
Text inputFile inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeReasoning

The overall result weights benchmark capability categories at 80% and price, API speed/latency, and availability at 20%. Recent test volume does not affect the winner, and missing benchmark categories are excluded.

Model metadata

Model compare
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3 Mini
DeveloperGoogleOpenAI
ReleasedJun 2025Feb 2025
ParametersNo dataNo data
TokenizerGeminiGPT
Knowledge cutoff2025-01-312023-10-31
OpenRouter IDgoogle/gemini-2.5-proopenai/o3-mini
ReferencesNo dataNo data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Gemini 2.5 Pro and O3 Mini: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro is stronger in benchmark categories (Agents, Reasoning) and operational dimensions (Average speed, Free providers, Provider coverage).

O3 Mini

O3 Mini is stronger in benchmark categories (Coding, Knowledge, Math, Instruction following) and operational dimensions (Cheapest input price, First-token latency).

Benchmark score comparison

Third-party benchmark profile synced into LMSpeed; only metrics available for both models are shown.

Category performance

Compare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.

Model A coverage
6 / 8
Model B coverage
6 / 8
Shared
6 shared categories

Avg. score

Gemini 2.5 Pro

45.7

Avg. score

O3 Mini

48.3

Agents

Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by 4.6

Gemini 2.5 Pro44
O3 Mini39.4

Coding

O3 Mini leads by 0.4

Gemini 2.5 Pro38.8
O3 Mini39.2

Reasoning

Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by 4.3

Gemini 2.5 Pro53.6
O3 Mini49.3

Knowledge

O3 Mini leads by 12.0

Gemini 2.5 Pro35.8
O3 Mini47.8

Math

O3 Mini leads by 2.5

Gemini 2.5 Pro56
O3 Mini58.5

Multilingual

No data

Gemini 2.5 Pro-
O3 Mini-

Multimodal

No data

Gemini 2.5 Pro-
O3 Mini-

Instruction following

O3 Mini leads by 9.6

Gemini 2.5 Pro46
O3 Mini55.6

Professional benchmark details

Metric-level scores with benchmark source, rank depth, confidence, error, and evaluation date where available.

Aggregatereported

BenchLM overall score

Gemini 2.5 Pro

43.0

Rank #103/111 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-03-01

+8.0

O3 Mini

winner

51.0

Rank #78/111 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-01-31

Pricingverified

Input price

Gemini 2.5 Pro

$1.25/M

Rank #123/186 · confidence 4

+$0.150/M

O3 Mini

winner

$1.10/M

Rank #117/186 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

Gemini 2.5 Pro

$3.44/M

Rank #139/186 · confidence 4

+$1.51/M

O3 Mini

winner

$1.93/M

Rank #118/186 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

Gemini 2.5 Pro

$10.00/M

Rank #142/186 · confidence 4

+$5.60/M

O3 Mini

winner

$4.40/M

Rank #119/186 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

MMLU-Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

86.2%

Rank #18/129 · confidence 4

+7.1%

O3 Mini

79.1%

Rank #70/129 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

GPQA

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

84.4%

Rank #71/218 · confidence 4

+9.6%

O3 Mini

74.8%

Rank #122/218 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

HLE

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

22.5%

Rank #77/216 · confidence 4

+14.6%

O3 Mini

7.9%

Rank #135/216 · confidence 4

Codingverified

LiveCodeBench

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

80.1%

Rank #18/115 · confidence 4

+8.4%

O3 Mini

71.7%

Rank #27/115 · confidence 4

Codingreported

SWE-bench Verified

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

63.8

Rank #44/49 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-03-01

+14.5

O3 Mini

49.3

Rank #46/49 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-01-31

Codingreported

AA-SciCode

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

42.8

Rank #61/113 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-03-01

+2.9

O3 Mini

39.9

Rank #76/113 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-01-31

Codingreported

BenchLM Coding score

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

38.7

Rank #76/87 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-03-01

+17.4

O3 Mini

21.3

Rank #86/87 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-01-31

Mathverified

AIME

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

88.7%

Rank #5/68 · confidence 4

+11.7%

O3 Mini

77.0%

Rank #14/68 · confidence 4

Mathverified

MATH-500

Gemini 2.5 Pro

96.7%

Rank #15/73 · confidence 4

+0.6%

O3 Mini

winner

97.3%

Rank #11/73 · confidence 4

Knowledgereported

BenchLM Knowledge score

Gemini 2.5 Pro

23.5

Rank #83/83 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-03-01

+42.1

O3 Mini

winner

65.6

Rank #48/83 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-01-31

Knowledgereported

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

25.9

Rank #61/117 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-03-01

+6.7

O3 Mini

19.2

Rank #88/117 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-01-31

Knowledgereported

AA-GPQA Diamond

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

84.4

Rank #63/113 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-03-01

+9.6

O3 Mini

74.8

Rank #87/113 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-01-31

Knowledgereported

AA-HLE

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

22.5

Rank #65/114 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-03-01

+14.6

O3 Mini

7.9

Rank #89/114 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-01-31

Agentsreported

τ²-bench results

Gemini 2.5 Pro

winner

54.1

Rank #64/82 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-03-01

+25.4

O3 Mini

28.7

Rank #72/82 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-01-31

API audit comparison

Latest completed audits from shared providers, with four safety and integrity score groups plus report links.

Provider
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3 Mini
No completed audits are available from shared providers yet.

Provider examples

Speed aggregates and input/output pricing share each provider row for real API selection and migration cost checks.

Provider
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3 Mini
N1N10 tests

Gemini 2.5 Pro

speed / latency

106 tok/s / 16405ms

input / output

No data

O3 Mini

speed / latency

117 tok/s / 4809ms

input / output

No data

Gemini 2.5 Pro

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

O3 Mini

speed / latency

44 tok/s / 17418ms

input / output

No data

DeepRouter5 tests

Gemini 2.5 Pro

speed / latency

92 tok/s / 16347ms

input / output

No data

O3 Mini

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Rnglg2 API5 tests

Gemini 2.5 Pro

speed / latency

111 tok/s / 17899ms

input / output

No data

O3 Mini

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

9527 API0 tests

Gemini 2.5 Pro

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

O3 Mini

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Gemini 2.5 Pro

gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

O3 Mini

o3-mini-medium

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

Gemini 2.5 Pro

google/gemini-2.5-pro-preview

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.000001/request

O3 Mini

openai/o3-mini

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.990/M/$4.00/M

Gemini 2.5 Pro

gemini-2.5-pro-c

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0010/request

O3 Mini

o3-mini

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.030/M/$0.121/M

Gemini 2.5 Pro

gemini-2.5-pro

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.171/M/$1.37/M

O3 Mini

o3-mini-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0033/request

Gemini 2.5 Pro

gemini-2.5-pro

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.171/M/$1.37/M

O3 Mini

o3-mini-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0033/request

FAQ

Weighted outcome: O3 Mini. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Why is this comparison indexable?
It has 6 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.
Are missing metrics invented?
No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.