Model comparison

Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.3

Rank #332 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 9.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.2% for Gemini 1.0 Pro and 82.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

Side by side

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
Gemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index27.335.1
Released2023-12-132024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked2454

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.0 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 32.2 (#275), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Coding11081350
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
WeirdML—25.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.9%
LiveBench Coding—63.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—59.9%
CadEval—30%
HumanEval+55.5%—
MBPP+61.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
TheAgentCompany—11.4%

Reasoning Gemini 1.0 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 17.1 (#296), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Hard Prompts11091346
DTBench45.9%63.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index117.04135.36
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
EnigmaEval—1.1%
LiveBench Reasoning—78.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis—69.4%
LiveBench—66.9%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 9.3 (#321), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%57.8%
LMArena Math11321352
MATH Level 511.2%82.2%
Omni-MATH—45.9%
LiveBench Math—75.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.6 (#291), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond34%64.1%
LMArena Expert10591339
MMLU70%79.7%
Humanity's Last Exam—6.6%
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision—1158
GeoBench—77%

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.4 (#252), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English11381342
LMArena Chinese11241373
LMArena French11451391
LMArena German11251353
LMArena Japanese10231294
LMArena Russian11861351
LMArena Spanish11191363
LMArena Korean—1313

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.6 (#267), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following11141336
LiveBench Instruction Following—85.8%
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#249), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query11321344
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.0 (#264), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text11491354
LMArena Creative Writing11311340
LMArena Multi-Turn11391350
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1128
WildBench—80%
LiveBench Language—51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.2 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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