Gemini 3 Pro vs Claude 3.5 Haiku

1. State-of-the-art reasoning

• Top performance across academic reasoning, scientific knowledge, math, and complex problem-solving.
• Excels at long-horizon, multi-step workflows and deep logical interpretation.

2. World-leading multimodal capabilities

• Natively understands text, images, videos, audio, and code.
• Ranked highest on benchmarks like MMMU-Pro, Video-MMMU, ScreenSpot-Pro.

3. Exceptional coding + agentic workflows

• Strong in competitive coding and real-world agentic tasks (SWE-Bench Verified, Terminal-Bench, LiveCodeBench).
• Improved tool calling, planning, and execution for autonomous or semi-autonomous agents.

4. Powerful for long-context tasks

• Effective at 128K-1M context windows with high retrieval accuracy.
• Ideal for document-heavy workflows, research, analysis, multi-file coding, and multi-document reasoning.

5. Strong information synthesis and interpretation

• Outperforms peers in chart reasoning, OCR, structured extraction, and screen understanding.
• Excellent at combining multimodal inputs into coherent, concise answers.

6. High reliability for enterprise tasks

• Benchmarks show superior factuality, grounding, and parametric knowledge.
• Strong multilingual accuracy and global commonsense performance.

7. Optimized for production agents

• Designed for complex multi-step planning, simultaneous task execution, and improved consistency.
• Works across coding, research, creative workflows, UI generation, and data-heavy applications.

1. Intelligence & Benchmark Performance

• Matches Claude 3 Opus (previous largest model) on many intelligence tasks.
• Surpasses Claude 3 Opus on multiple evaluations despite being a smaller, faster model.
• Major improvements across every skill category vs previous Haiku.

2. Coding Strength

• Scores 40.6% on SWE-bench Verified, outperforming:

  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet (original version)
  • GPT-4o
  • Many agent-driven systems

• Excellent for engineering assistants, agent coding tasks, and bug fixing.

3. Speed & Latency

• Same speed class as Claude 3 Haiku (ultra-fast).
• Ideal for real-time interactions, high request volumes, and UI responsiveness.

4. Tool Use & Instruction Following

• Better at following instructions than previous Haiku.
• Stronger at tool use accuracy, making it reliable for agents and workflows.

5. Best Use Cases

• High-volume, low-latency tasks
• User-facing products
• Sub-agent tasks in larger workflows
• Processing large structured datasets (pricing, inventory, purchase history)
• Rapid content or code generation where speed matters