Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs GPT-4.1 mini

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 16.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.933.6
Released2024-10-032025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked2147

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Coding12181367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
WeirdML—37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
CadEval—16%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Hard Prompts12091349
DTBench50%68.8%
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
LMCA—21.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.01

Math GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%44.7%
LMArena Math12071343
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
Omni-MATH—49.1%
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
GPQA Diamond33%65.8%
LMArena Expert11851338
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%

Multimodal GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision10441181

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English12151318
LMArena Chinese12311329
LMArena French12341358
LMArena German12061351
LMArena Japanese11501290
LMArena Korean11401298
LMArena Russian12361324
LMArena Spanish12121319

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Instruction Following11991333
IFEval—90.4%

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query12191344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text12261340
LMArena Creative Writing12181300
LMArena Multi-Turn11851354
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and GPT-4.1 mini share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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