Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Gemini 2.0 Pro

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Pro Google

39.1

Rank #173 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.0 Pro in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Pro leads 39.7 to 22.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 61.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 83.5% for Gemini 2.0 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemini 2.0 Pro specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index33.239.1
Released2024-05-142025-02-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked4214

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
Aider Polyglot—35.6%
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LiveBench Coding—63.5%
LMArena Coding1261—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Gemini 2.0 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36135.06
EnigmaEval—0.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—60.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench53.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—68%
ForecastBench53.9—
LiveBench—65.1%
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
MATH Level 561.9%83.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LiveBench Math—71%
LMArena Math1269—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
GPQA Diamond47.3%65.7%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
Confabulations—18.4%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Gemini 2.0 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Gemini 2.0 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
LMArena Non-English1278—
LMArena Chinese1295—
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Russian1288—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
LiveBench Instruction Following—83.4%
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
Fiction.LiveBench—41.7%
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.0 Pro
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—
LiveBench Language—44.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Gemini 2.0 Pro?

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Gemini 2.0 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemini 2.0 Pro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14.

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