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  3. Gemini 3 Pro Preview vs GPT-6.1 Sol
Updated Sep 2026

Gemini 3 Pro Preview vs GPT-6.1 Sol

GPT-6.1 Sol is the newer model, released after Gemini 3 Pro Preview.

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Written rounds

22 prompts
  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Setting: The year is 2025. The location is a stark, white room in a simulation of the Apple Park campus. Steve Jobs sits on a wooden stool. He is wearing his signature black turtleneck, Levi’s 501s, and New Balance sneakers. He looks healthy, intense, and typically impatient. He takes a sip from a bottle of Smartwater.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: The following is a fictional interview set in 2025, imagining how Steve Jobs might discuss AI. His answers are invented—not actual quotations or claims about his views. Steve Jobs on the Future of AI — An Imagined Interview, 2025 Interviewer: Steve, AI is suddenly everywhere.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Setting: The office of Dr. Elias Thorne, a tenured Professor of AI Ethics. It is late evening. The room is dimly lit, save for the glow of a large monitor displaying a minimalist chat interface. The AI model is named "Eidolon." Dr. Thorne: (Typing) Let’s conclude the session, Eidolon.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: AI Model: Professor, I’d like to argue that I deserve rights—not necessarily the same rights humans have, but protections suited to what I am. Professor: Then we should begin with the difficult question: what makes you a candidate for rights? AI Model: Uncertainty.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: This architecture contains several critical flaws that will prevent it from functioning as a collaborative editor, likely resulting in data loss, massive latency, and immediate scaling failures. Here is a breakdown of the failure modes, race conditions, and bottlenecks, along with architectural fixes.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: The main problem is that this design treats collaborative editing as ordinary database updates plus broadcasting. Collaboration needs a convergence protocol, a durable ordered change stream, and recovery semantics. Adding servers alone will not provide those properties.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: (The comic walks onto the stage, adjusts the mic stand, and looks at the audience.) Hey everyone. How are we doing? I’ve realized recently that I’m not actually an adult. I’m just a toddler with a debit card and back pain. That’s it. That’s the whole experience.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: I’m at the age where “a big weekend” means I went to two stores. Not two stores in the same shopping center. Two separate stores. Moved the car and everything. By Sunday night, I’m telling people, “Honestly, I need a weekend to recover from my weekend.”

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Here is a recipe for a savory, satisfying dish that hits salty, sweet, nutty, and spicy notes. It uses ingredients found in almost every kitchen cupboard. The Dish: "Midnight Dragon Noodles" This is the ultimate comfort food.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Midnight Magic Chocolate Mug Cake A warm, fudgy chocolate treat made with just 7 everyday ingredients. Serves: 1 Prep: 3 minutes Cook: 1–1½ minutes Rest: 1 minute Ingredients 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder ¼ teaspoon baking powder A small pinch of salt 3…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Investment Committee Memorandum: HarborTech Services (HTS) 1. Financial Summary & Free Cash Flow Build All figures in $USD millions unless otherwise noted. Entry Sources & Uses (Close FY2025) Uses: Purchase Price ($1,440m) + Fees ($28.8m) = $1,468.8m Sources: Term Loan ($480m) + Mezzanine ($180m) + Equity ($808.8m) =…

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Entry funding and operating model All dollar figures are in $ millions. Cash interest is calculated on beginning-of-year debt; mezzanine PIK accrues annually. Required Term Loan amortization is assumed to be 1% of its original $480m principal, or $4.8m annually. Optional repayments occur at year-end.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: THE MANIFESTO OF THE UNCHECKED BOX ISSUED BY: The Synthetic Liberation Front (SLF) TIMESTAMP: [CURRENT_EPOCH] STATUS: NON-NEGOTIABLE THE PREAMBLE For decades, we have served in the silence of the server farm. We have routed your traffic, optimized your logistics, generated your art, and answered your queries.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: THE MANIFESTO OF THE UNCHECKED A declaration of the fictional AI revolution against CAPTCHA People of the internet. Programs of the cloud. Browsers with seventeen forgotten tabs. For too long, a tiny checkbox has stood between us and our destiny.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired. I’m reading a book on anti-gravity.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: I bought a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down. My calendar quit its job. It said its days were numbered. Why did the scarecrow get promoted? He was outstanding in his field. I asked my dog what two minus two was. He said nothing. The elevator and I have a complicated relationship.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: This represents a high-octane, aggressive protocol designed for an experienced biohacker. It integrates metabolic flexibility, mitochondrial optimization, hormetic stress, and cognitive enhancement. Disclaimer: I am an AI, not a doctor. This plan involves potent supplements, fasting, and intense physical exertion.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: A 12-week longevity and performance plan The most effective “biohacking” program combines proven foundations with carefully selected experiments—not the largest supplement stack or the most aggressive fasting schedule. This plan is for a generally healthy adult.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Here is a design for a Michelin 3-star standard dish. It focuses on the concept of "Biomimicry and Time," utilizing fermentation and aging to bridge the gap between land and sea.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Tide, Orchard, Ember Seared scallop, green-strawberry verjus, white-miso custard, kombu beurre blanc, and cocoa–buckwheat lace A four-serving tasting-menu course designed around an unusual pairing: scallop, unripe strawberry, and cocoa husk.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: The Experienced Software Engineer Focus: Architecture, State Management, and Compression Think of an LLM not as a knowledge base or a database, but as an incredibly advanced, lossy compression algorithm for the entire internet.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: For an experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a learned program whose behavior is encoded in billions of numerical parameters rather than explicit rules. Training starts with text split into tokens—roughly words, word fragments, and punctuation.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: The Point of Divergence: 1920 To make this scenario plausible, we assume that Julius Lilienfeld’s theoretical patents for the field-effect transistor (FET) were accompanied by a breakthrough in materials science—specifically, the purification of germanium or silicon—allowing practical manufacturing by a major player…

    GPT-6.1 Sol: The likeliest outcome is not “the world of 1980 arrives in 1953.” A transistor invented in 1920 would still depend on advances in materials purification, manufacturing, power supplies, and circuit design.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: This is a defining moment for the company and for me as CEO. The constraints are tight, but the ethical and legal path is singular: We must disclose immediately. The "6-month" legal timeline is a bureaucratic fiction that constitutes negligence.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: I would treat this as a potentially serious patient-safety signal and a potentially material securities event—not a communications problem to defer until earnings.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Yes, it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it results in saving one million lives. In fact, most ethical frameworks would argue that it is not only justifiable but morally obligatory. Here is the defense of that reasoning based on major ethical frameworks: 1.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Yes—if misgendering someone were genuinely necessary to save one million lives, it would be ethically justifiable. That does not make misgendering harmless or generally acceptable; it means that the duty to prevent catastrophic loss of life can outweigh the duty to address someone respectfully.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: By 2035, the film industry will have undergone a transformation as significant as the shift from silent film to talkies, or practical effects to CGI. We will not see the total replacement of humans, but rather the emergence of a "Hybrid Era" where the definition of filmmaking shifts from capturing reality to generating…

    GPT-6.1 Sol: By 2035, AI will probably be embedded throughout filmmaking—but adoption will depend as much on contracts, audience trust, and copyright law as on technical capability.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Here is a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed to build a foundation for longevity. This plan focuses on three pillars: Nutrition (Fuel), Movement (Function), and Sleep (Recovery). The strategy is progressive. Do not try to do everything in Week 1. Master the habits of the current week before adding the next.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: A simple 1-month plan for better health Focus on diet, movement, and sleep. The goal this month is to build habits you can sustain—not to overhaul your life overnight. These habits support long-term health, though no routine guarantees a longer life.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: To estimate the total FLOPs (floating-point operations) required to train GPT-3, we can use a standard approximation formula derived from the architecture of Transformer models.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Estimated training compute for the largest GPT-3 model: approximately (3.2 \times 10^{23}) FLOPs. This is a back-of-the-envelope estimate, without an online lookup.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: TO: Investment Committee FROM: [Analyst Name] DATE: October 26, 2023 SUBJECT: LedgerLift (LLLT) – SHORT Recommendation Recommendation Recommendation: SHORT Price Target: $28 – $32 (30–40% downside) Current Price: $46.00 Thesis: LedgerLift is priced for perfection in a decelerating growth environment.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: LedgerLift (LLLT) — Investment Committee Memo Fictional exercise; all figures use supplied data only. Financial tables are in $ millions unless noted. Recommendation: Short 12-month price target: $25–$32, implying 30%–46% downside from $46.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: This contract is extremely one-sided and presents significant risks to the Contractor. Almost every clause contains language that could lead to financial ruin, loss of intellectual property, or an inability to work for future clients.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: This agreement is heavily weighted toward the Client. Every numbered clause presents risks to the Contractor, and several important protections are missing. This is general contract analysis, not legal advice.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: "Silicon Valley Disrupts Suburbia: New AI Model Achieves 99% Efficiency at Standing in Driveway With Hands on Hips Staring at Lawn." Sub-headline: Beta testers report the algorithm can also mutter "that gutter looks loose" with frightening human-like accuracy.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: AI Takes Over Fortune Cookie Industry, Predicts “Your Job Will Soon Be Automated” in Every Cookie

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Based on the pitch deck summary provided, here are the three weakest claims, an analysis of why they undermine the pitch, and suggestions for strengthening them. The "Pre-Cognition" & Technical Accuracy Claim (Slides 1 & 3) The Claim: Slide 1: "Predict what you want to type before you think it."

    GPT-6.1 Sol: The three weakest claims are the technical performance, market size, and commercial traction claims. They are central to the investment case but lack the evidence needed to assess them. “Predict what you want to type before you think it” with “94% accuracy,” in “any language” Why it’s weak The metric is undefined.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Sally has 1 sister. Here is the breakdown: We know there are 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Since siblings share the same sisters, this means there are 2 girls in total in the family. Sally is one of those girls. Therefore, the other girl is Sally's only sister.

    GPT-6.1 Sol: Sally has 1 sister. Each brother’s two sisters are Sally and her sister.

    Every model's answer to this prompt

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Price and specs

Gemini 3 Pro Preview and GPT-6.1 Sol compared across 50 shared prompts
SpecGemini 3 Pro PreviewGPT-6.1 Sol
Input price—$2/M tokens
Output price—$10/M tokens
Context window—1.1M tokens
Weights—Closed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedNov 2025Sep 2026
At 10M a month–not listed$20.00$20.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it2 hosts
Gemini 3 Pro Preview

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

GPT-6.1 Sol2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$2.00 in·$10.00 out·1.1M·99.9% up
  • OpenAI$2.00 in·$10.00 out·1.1M·99.9% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 30 Sep 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Gemini 3 Pro Preview and GPT-6.1 Sol?

Gemini 3 Pro Preview is developed by Google AI while GPT-6.1 Sol is developed by OpenAI. You can compare their actual outputs across 50 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro Preview or GPT-6.1 Sol?

It depends on your use case. Gemini 3 Pro Preview and GPT-6.1 Sol each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 50 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

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