Model comparison

Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.3

Rank #332 Confirmed

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.5 Flash in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 39.9 to 9.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for Gemini 1.0 Pro and 73.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash.

Side by side

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash specifications
Gemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index27.339.3
Released2023-12-132025-04-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$2.50
Results tracked2454

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 32.2 (#275), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Coding11081424
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—28.7%
Aider Polyglot—55.1%
WeirdML—41.9%
ALE-Bench—661.88
HumanEval+55.5%—
MBPP+61.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
Terminal-Bench—17.1%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—56.2%
TheAgentCompany—41.1%
BALROG—33.5%
Vending-Bench 2—548.84

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 17.1 (#296), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts11091422
DTBench45.9%76.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index117.04143.03
ARC-AGI-2—2.5%
SimpleBench—41.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—56.8%
ARC-AGI-1—33.3%
CritPt—1.1%
EnigmaEval—2.7%
LMCA—27.5%
ForecastBench—60.6

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 9.3 (#321), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%73.1%
LMArena Math11321415
Omni-MATH—38.5%
MATH Level 511.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.6 (#291), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Expert10591426
GPQA Diamond34%—
Humanity's Last Exam—12.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.9%
Confabulations—16.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.8%
GPQA (HELM)—39%
MMLU70%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Vision—1253
GeoBench—76%
VPCT—46.2%
SpatialViz-Bench—36.9%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.4 (#252), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Non-English11381409
LMArena Chinese11241450
LMArena French11451433
LMArena German11251418
LMArena Japanese10231405
LMArena Russian11861415
LMArena Spanish11191421
LMArena Korean—1385

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.6 (#267), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following11141405
IFEval—89.8%

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#249), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Longer Query11321419
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.0 (#264), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Text11491417
LMArena Creative Writing11311400
LMArena Multi-Turn11391408
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.5%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1137
WildBench—81.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro or Gemini 2.5 Flash better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54.

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