Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.7

Rank #292 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #8 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.5 leads 81.5 to 13.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 100% for GPT-5.5.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and GPT-5.5 specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.763.4
Released2024-10-032026-04-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$5
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked2171

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221), GPT-5.5: 58.3 (#13)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
LMArena Coding12181494
SWE-bench Verified—80.6%
DeepSWE—67%
FrontierCode—43%
LMArena WebDev—1512
SciCode—56.1%
GSO—40.2%
WeirdML—84.9%
MirrorCode—10%
ALE-Bench—1,943

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
APEX-Agents—55.1%
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
GBAEval—53.2%
GDP.pdf—26%
LMArena Search—1242
Vending-Bench 2—7,524

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#8)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
LMArena Hard Prompts12101489
DTBench50%96%
ARC-AGI-2—85%
SimpleBench—69%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—96.2%
ARC-AGI-1—95%
CritPt—27.1%
Chess Puzzles—54%
EBR-Bench—34.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
LMCA—54.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—88.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—159.25
ForecastBench—60.6

Math GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296), GPT-5.5: 81.5 (#9)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#14)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
GPQA Diamond33%94%
LMArena Expert11851508
SimpleQA Verified—63%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%

Multimodal GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110), GPT-5.5: 47.1 (#11)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
LMArena Vision10441297
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%
LMArena Document—1486

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224), GPT-5.5: 56.5 (#19)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English12151467
LMArena Chinese12311535
LMArena French12331486
LMArena German12061478
LMArena Japanese11501498
LMArena Korean11401461
LMArena Russian12361473
LMArena Spanish12121469

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231), GPT-5.5: 77.7 (#18)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following11991479

Long Context GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220), GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
LMArena Longer Query12191484
CL-bench Life—22.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#13)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-5.5
LMArena Text12261471
LMArena Creative Writing12181455
LMArena Multi-Turn11851477
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844
EQ-Bench 4—1315

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or GPT-5.5 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.3 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and GPT-5.5 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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