Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think vs Seed 1.6

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

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 81 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 94.5 against 74.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 91 to 64.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 256K for Seed 1.6.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed 1.6 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

78.1

Seed 1.6

62.3

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
63
87
BrowseComp
67
73
OSWorld-Verified
58

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

60.3

Seed 1.6

42.4

91
HumanEval
64
58
SWE-bench Verified
46
58
LiveCodeBench
38
63
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

95

Seed 1.6

79.6

95
MMMU-Pro
80
95
OfficeQA Pro
79

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Seed 1.6

74.5

95
SimpleQA
69
93
MuSR
69
95
BBH
86
94
LongBench v2
77
96
MRCRv2
78

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

74.7

Seed 1.6

56.4

99
MMLU
73
97
GPQA
72
95
SuperGPQA
70
93
OpenBookQA
68
81
MMLU-Pro
75
32
HLE
11
88
FrontierScience
68

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

89

Seed 1.6

87

89
IFEval
87

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

87.4

Seed 1.6

83.4

92
MGSM
88
85
MMLU-ProX
81

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Seed 1.6

75.9

99
AIME 2023
72
99
AIME 2024
74
98
AIME 2025
73
95
HMMT Feb 2023
68
97
HMMT Feb 2024
70
96
HMMT Feb 2025
69
96
BRUMO 2025
71
92
MATH-500
82

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed 1.6?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 81 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 91 and 64.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed 1.6?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 56.4. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed 1.6?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.3 versus 42.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed 1.6?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 75.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed 1.6?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 74.5. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed 1.6?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 62.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed 1.6?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 79.6. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed 1.6?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 87. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed 1.6?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 83.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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