Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.0 Pro vs o4-mini

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.3

Rank #332 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where o4-mini leads 40.8 to 9.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.2% for Gemini 1.0 Pro and 97.8% for o4-mini.

Side by side

Gemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index27.341.6
Released2023-12-132025-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.10
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked2460

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Category by category

Coding o4-mini leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 32.2 (#275), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
LMArena Coding11081368
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
GSO—3.6%
WeirdML—52.6%
CadEval—62%
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72
HumanEval+55.5%—
MBPP+61.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning o4-mini leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 17.1 (#296), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
LMArena Hard Prompts11091351
DTBench45.9%77.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index117.04145.64
ARC-AGI-2—6.1%
SimpleBench—38.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—58.7%
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—26%
EnigmaEval—9.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
LMCA—26.5%
ForecastBench—61.8

Math o4-mini leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 9.3 (#321), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%81.7%
LMArena Math11321389
MATH Level 511.2%97.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
Omni-MATH—72%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—24.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge o4-mini leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.6 (#291), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
GPQA Diamond34%79.6%
LMArena Expert10591343
Humanity's Last Exam—18.1%
SimpleQA Verified—19.6%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%
MMLU70%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual o4-mini leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.4 (#252), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
LMArena Non-English11381337
LMArena Chinese11241354
LMArena French11451364
LMArena German11251336
LMArena Japanese10231308
LMArena Russian11861334
LMArena Spanish11191347
LMArena Korean—1312

Instruction Following o4-mini leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.6 (#267), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
LMArena Instruction Following11141321
IFEval—92.8%

Long Context o4-mini leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#249), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
LMArena Longer Query11321315
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%

Writing & Preference o4-mini leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.0 (#264), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 Proo4-mini
LMArena Text11491353
LMArena Creative Writing11311294
LMArena Multi-Turn11391350
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro or o4-mini better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.0 Pro and o4-mini share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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