Model comparison

Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.1

Rank #327 Confirmed

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

44.9

Rank #67 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.5 Pro in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 55.8 to 15.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.2% for Gemini 1.0 Pro and 95.9% for Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Pro specifications
Gemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index27.144.9
Released2023-12-132025-03-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked2478

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 31.6 (#270), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.8 (#86)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Coding11081452
SWE-bench Verified—57.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—53.6%
Aider Polyglot—83.1%
LMArena WebDev—1227
SciCode—42.8%
GSO—3.9%
WeirdML—54%
LiveBench Coding—85.9%
CadEval—64%
ALE-Bench—785.52
AlgoTune—1.51
HumanEval+55.5%—
MBPP+61.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.1 (#81)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
Terminal-Bench—32.6%
GDPval—23.3%
Remote Labor Index—0.8%
TheAgentCompany—30.3%
τ²-bench Banking—13.7%
DeepResearch Bench—42.8%
BALROG—43.3%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—55.4%
Vending-Bench 2—573.64

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 16.4 (#292), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#85)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Hard Prompts11091455
DTBench45.9%82.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index116.97145.32
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
SimpleBench—62.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
ARC-AGI-1—41%
CritPt—2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
EnigmaEval—5.6%
LiveBench Reasoning—89.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—79.9%
LMCA—34.8%
ForecastBench—61.3
LiveBench—82.3%

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 8.7 (#315), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 31.9 (#191)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%84.7%
LMArena Math11321450
MATH Level 511.2%95.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—24.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—0%
Omni-MATH—41.6%
LiveBench Math—90.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—14.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.5 (#286), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.8 (#41)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
GPQA Diamond34%85.3%
LMArena Expert10591452
Humanity's Last Exam—21.6%
MMLU-Pro—86.3%
Confabulations—10.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7%
GPQA (HELM)—74.9%
MMLU70%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 44.5 (#16)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Vision—1263
GeoBench—86%
VPCT—48%
LMArena Document—1421
SpatialViz-Bench—44.7%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.5 (#247), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.5 (#30)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Non-English11381452
LMArena Chinese11241507
LMArena French11441473
LMArena German11251487
LMArena Japanese10231462
LMArena Russian11861460
LMArena Spanish11181473
LMArena Korean—1435

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.9 (#262), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.2 (#71)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following11141436
LiveBench Instruction Following—80.6%
IFEval—84%

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#244), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.7 (#5)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Longer Query11321449
Fiction.LiveBench—91.7%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.2 (#259), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.9 (#60)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Text11491458
LMArena Creative Writing11301453
LMArena Multi-Turn11391453
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1421
WildBench—85.7%
LiveBench Language—67.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than Gemini 2.5 Pro?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.8 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78.

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