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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Gemini 4 Hydrogen leads Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on coding, 77.9 to 32.3 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs 1.6x less per output token ($7.50 vs $12.00 per million). Updated November 14, 2026; 37 benchmarks have a result for both.

Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle
Coding
32.3
Overall
56.0
Output $/M
$12.00
2
Gemini 4 HydrogenGoogle
Coding
77.9
Overall
77.1
Output $/M
$7.50
35
vs boards won of 37 shared

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Gemini 4 Hydrogen: which to pick

Pick Gemini 4 Hydrogen for coding: it scores 77.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 32.3 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

Pick Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview for work measured by LMArena Text: Russian or LMArena Text: multi-turn, where it leads.

Shared results
37
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview only
106
Gemini 4 Hydrogen only
13
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 32.3 from 4 benchmarks, Gemini 4 Hydrogen 77.9 from 4 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 38.1 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI): Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 2.5% against Gemini 4 Hydrogen 54.0%, 68.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $12.00 against Gemini 4 Hydrogen $7.50 per million output tokens, 1.6x apart.
Context window
Both take 1.05M tokens.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewBarsGemini 4 HydrogenTies
Coding08
Agentic work02
Reasoning04
Math02
Knowledge04
Web design04
General211
All shared boards235
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index08
Coding benchmarks for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 HydrogenLeader
LiveBench codingNot measured78.5%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
LMArena WebDev14461704Gemini 4 Hydrogen
AA Coding Index68.8Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)88.5%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)78.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)2.5%54.0%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)32.0%87.8%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Code migration (Vals AI)17.3%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
IOI (Vals AI)51.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)70.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)6.7%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
SciCode58.7%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)53.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis run)4.0%54.0%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
FrontierCode 2.0Not measured39.0%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
Terminal-Bench80.2%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
GSO-Bench22.6%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
WeirdML72.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
MirrorCode8.9%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
ALE-Bench1160.6Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text: coding14831516Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: software and IT14861513Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena WebDev: React14371724Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena WebDev: HTML14891743Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena WebDev: from an image1480Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
SciCode14.3%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
GameBench 265.0Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
CursorBench 4.0Not measured57.8%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here
IntelligenceNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Intelligence benchmarks for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 HydrogenLeader
Neither model has a result on 2 boards here
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Agentic work benchmarks for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 HydrogenLeader
AA Agentic Index8.2Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps1102Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1042Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1086Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1035Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1143Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: agents building games1057Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1048Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1035Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets944Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LiveBench researchNot measured86.8%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
LiveBench browserNot measured77.1%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
LiveBench long agenticNot measured61.8%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
SREBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)43.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)9.3%52.3%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)20.7%53.8%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured11.3%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)52.6%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)60.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)1.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Vals Science Index27.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
τ²-Bench Telecom95.6%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
APEX-Agents35.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
METR time horizons77.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
BALROG57.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
DeepResearch Bench47.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
PostTrainBench18.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Vending-Bench 2$911Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
MCP Atlas78.2%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
τ³-Banking26.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Reasoning benchmarks for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 HydrogenLeader
GPQA Diamond95.5%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LiveBench reasoningNot measured88.6%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)20.7%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)88.2%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)94.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)47.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
HLE-Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)31.4%58.8%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
CritPt v2, hard subset (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured66.0%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)94.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
ARC-AGI98.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
ARC-AGI-277.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
SimpleBench79.6%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Chess puzzles51.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Mystery game puzzles34.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
EBR-bench14.3%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14851520Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: expert14831558Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14801514Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Vision: diagrams1311Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Vision: homework1317Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Math benchmarks for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 HydrogenLeader
AIME98.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
OTIS Mock AIME95.6%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 359.6%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
FrontierMath, tier 426.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
ProofBench26.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text: math14851507Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: mathematical work14761534Gemini 4 Hydrogen
MathArena28.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Knowledge benchmarks for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 HydrogenLeader
MMLU Pro91.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)87.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)64.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)64.5%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)72.9%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)69.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
MedQA (Vals AI)96.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
MedCode (Vals AI)59.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
AA-OmniscienceNot measured46.3Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
SimpleQA Verified73.5%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
GeoBench84.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text: science14961519Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14861488Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: legal and government14861532Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: business and finance14601486Gemini 4 Hydrogen
FACTS Benchmark Suite69.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Web design benchmarks for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 HydrogenLeader
Design Arena: websites12261320Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Design Arena: UI components1215Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: game dev11911369Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Design Arena: data viz1206Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: 3D12141415Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Design Arena: all code categories12201333Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Design Arena: SVG1275Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1265Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LiveBench designNot measured77.3%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index211
General benchmarks for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 HydrogenLeader
Vals IndexNot measured68.5%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
LiveBench data analysisNot measured83.2%Only Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)53.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
SAGE (Vals AI)83.2%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)76.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Vals Multimodal Index56.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
IFBench77.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)82.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
GDPval-AA799Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
DTBench97.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMCA53.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
CL-bench20.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Furniture assembly26.7%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
ExploitBench26.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
CL-bench Life16.9%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text14801502Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: instruction following14651519Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: creative writing14831509Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Vision1296Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text: English14781499Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: non-English14761495Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: Chinese15281631Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: German1491Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text: Japanese1492Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text: Korean1456Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text: French14871512Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: Spanish14791494Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: Russian14971492Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Text: Polish1498Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn14861485Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Text: longer queries14821524Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: writing and language14811500Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14651503Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Vision: English1287Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1362Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1304Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Vision: humor1323Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Vision: captioning1343Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1329Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1324Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
LMArena Document1443Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
MultiChallenge71.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
EQ-Bench 41132Not measuredOnly Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 4 HydrogenLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview$0.0080Fits in one request
Gemini 4 Hydrogen$0.0053Fits in one request

Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview$0.136Fits in one request
Gemini 4 Hydrogen$0.098Fits in one request

Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview$0.520Fits in one request
Gemini 4 Hydrogen$0.375Fits in one request

Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 4 Hydrogen
SpecificationGoogle Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle Gemini 4 Hydrogen
MakerGoogleGoogle
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedFebruary 19, 2026November 12, 2026
Context window1.05M1.05M
Input $/Mtok$2.00$1.50
Output $/Mtok$12.00$7.50
Coding index32.377.9
Independent measurements behind it44
Cost per solved task$0.99Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better than Gemini 4 Hydrogen for coding?

Pick Gemini 4 Hydrogen for coding: it scores 77.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 32.3 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. Pick Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview for work measured by LMArena Text: Russian or LMArena Text: multi-turn, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Gemini 4 Hydrogen?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million output tokens; Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs $1.50 and $7.50. Cost per solved task is known for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview only.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Gemini 4 Hydrogen?

Neither: both take 1.05M tokens.

How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen comparison based on?

37 benchmarks have a result for both models as of November 14, 2026. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Gemini 4 Hydrogen's on 4. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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