1-bit Bonsai 8B vs Gemini 3 Pro

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 8B· Gemini 3 Pro

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Gemini 3 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 78 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 73.7 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 97%.

Gemini 3 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A109 t/s
TTFTN/A32.65s
Context64K2M

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 8BGemini 3 Pro
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.068%
BrowseComp83%
OSWorld-Verified66%
Coding
HumanEval91%
SWE-bench Verified59%
LiveCodeBench49%
SWE-bench Pro58%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro81%
OfficeQA Pro92%
ReasoningGemini 3 Pro wins
MuSR50%93%
BBH90%
LongBench v290%
MRCRv287%
ARC-AGI-231.1%
KnowledgeGemini 3 Pro wins
GPQA30%97%
MMLU99%
SuperGPQA95%
MMLU-Pro83%
HLE20%
FrontierScience86%
SimpleQA95%
Instruction FollowingGemini 3 Pro wins
IFEval79.8%88%
Multilingual
MGSM89%
MMLU-ProX85%
MathematicsGemini 3 Pro wins
MATH-50066%91%
AIME 202399%
AIME 202499%
AIME 202598%
HMMT Feb 202395%
HMMT Feb 202497%
HMMT Feb 202596%
BRUMO 202596%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is ahead overall, 78 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 97%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.7 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 95.6 versus 66. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 50. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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