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Google’s Gemini 3.0 beats GPT-5 on coding benchmarks (it’s complicated)

Gemini 3.0 posts a higher SWE-bench Verified than GPT-5 in Google’s own report — but the gap shrinks when you control for tool budget.

Headlines say Gemini 3.0 > GPT-5 on coding. Reality: the benchmark allowed Gemini double the tool calls in the published comparison, and on apples-to-apples runs the two are within noise.

We’ll re-run with a fixed tool budget once API access opens up.

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