Model comparison

Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.3

Rank #332 Confirmed

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 22.1 to 9.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.2% for Gemini 1.0 Pro and 61.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).

Side by side

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) specifications
Gemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index27.333.2
Released2023-12-132024-05-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked2442

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 32.2 (#275), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Coding11081261
HumanEval+55.5%75.6%
MBPP+61.4%67.5%
WeirdML—24.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
BALROG—14.6%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 17.1 (#296), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Hard Prompts11091257
DTBench45.9%53.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index117.04129.36
ForecastBench—53.9
PIQA—87.5%

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 9.3 (#321), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%16.3%
LMArena Math11321269
MATH Level 511.2%61.9%
Omni-MATH—30.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0%
GSM8K—82.4%

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.6 (#291), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
GPQA Diamond34%47.3%
LMArena Expert10591233
MMLU70%77.9%
MMLU-Pro—67.8%
GPQA (HELM)—43.7%
BoolQ—85.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Vision—1141
Video-MME—70.3%
GeoBench—76%

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.4 (#252), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English11381278
LMArena Chinese11241295
LMArena French11451258
LMArena German11251262
LMArena Japanese10231252
LMArena Russian11861288
LMArena Spanish11191243
LMArena Korean—1221

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.6 (#267), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following11141258
IFEval—83.1%

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#249), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query11321284

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.0 (#264), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Text11491287
LMArena Creative Writing11311285
LMArena Multi-Turn11391253
WildBench—79.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.

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