Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs GPT-5

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 leads 55.0 to 14.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 91.4% for GPT-5.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and GPT-5 specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.950.9
Released2024-10-032025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked2169

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), GPT-5: 50.3 (#47)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
LMArena Coding12181436
SWE-bench Verified—73.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—65%
Aider Polyglot—88%
LMArena WebDev—1418
SciCode—42.9%
GSO—6.9%
WeirdML—60.7%
ALE-Bench—1,162
AlgoTune—1.67

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, GPT-5: 33.1 (#56)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
Terminal-Bench—49.6%
GDPval—34.8%
Remote Labor Index—1.7%
DeepResearch Bench—49.6%
BALROG—32.8%
LMArena Search—1133
METR Time Horizons—69.6%

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), GPT-5: 38.3 (#64)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
LMArena Hard Prompts12091416
DTBench50%90.7%
ARC-AGI-2—9.9%
SimpleBench—56.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.7%
ARC-AGI-1—65.7%
CritPt—12.6%
Chess Puzzles—37%
EnigmaEval—10.5%
EBR-Bench—12.7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
LMCA—40%
Epoch Capabilities Index—150
ForecastBench—61.4

Math GPT-5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), GPT-5: 55.0 (#44)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%91.4%
LMArena Math12071407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—55.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4—22%
ProofBench—18%
Omni-MATH—64.7%
MATH Level 5—98.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—32.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—12.5%

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), GPT-5: 56.6 (#43)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
GPQA Diamond33%86.2%
LMArena Expert11851419
Humanity's Last Exam—25.3%
SimpleQA Verified—50.1%
MMLU-Pro—86.3%
Confabulations—10.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.7%
GPQA (HELM)—79.2%

Multimodal GPT-5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), GPT-5: 46.8 (#13)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
LMArena Vision10441232
GeoBench—81%
VPCT—66%

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), GPT-5: 51.4 (#110)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
LMArena Non-English12151397
LMArena Chinese12311422
LMArena French12341410
LMArena German12061416
LMArena Japanese11501409
LMArena Korean11401360
LMArena Russian12361406
LMArena Spanish12121399

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), GPT-5: 73.8 (#113)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
LMArena Instruction Following11991388
IFEval—87.5%

Long Context GPT-5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), GPT-5: 69.5 (#2)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
LMArena Longer Query12191399
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), GPT-5: 63.4 (#65)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5
LMArena Text12261406
LMArena Creative Writing12181365
LMArena Multi-Turn11851426
Short-Story Creative Writing—86%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1627
WildBench—85.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than GPT-5?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or GPT-5 better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and GPT-5 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 has 69.

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