Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.5 Pro in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 26.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 84.7% for Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemini 2.5 Pro specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index33.245.0
Released2024-05-142025-03-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked4278

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
WeirdML24.9%54%
LMArena Coding12611452
SWE-bench Verified—57.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—53.6%
Aider Polyglot—83.1%
LMArena WebDev—1227
SciCode—42.8%
GSO—3.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LiveBench Coding—85.9%
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
CadEval—64%
ALE-Bench—785.52
AlgoTune—1.51
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
BALROG14.6%43.3%
Terminal-Bench—32.6%
GDPval—23.3%
Remote Labor Index—0.8%
TheAgentCompany—30.3%
τ²-bench Banking—13.7%
DeepResearch Bench—42.8%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—55.4%
Vending-Bench 2—573.64

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Hard Prompts12571455
DTBench53.8%82.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36145.32
ForecastBench53.961.3
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
SimpleBench—62.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
ARC-AGI-1—41%
CritPt—2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
EnigmaEval—5.6%
LiveBench Reasoning—89.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—79.9%
LMCA—34.8%
LiveBench—82.3%
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%84.7%
Omni-MATH30.4%41.6%
LMArena Math12691450
MATH Level 561.9%95.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%14.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—24.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—0%
LiveBench Math—90.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPQA Diamond47.3%85.3%
MMLU-Pro67.8%86.3%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%74.9%
LMArena Expert12331452
Humanity's Last Exam—21.6%
Confabulations—10.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7%
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Vision11411263
GeoBench76%86%
Video-MME70.3%—
VPCT—48%
LMArena Document—1421
SpatialViz-Bench—44.7%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Non-English12781451
LMArena Chinese12951507
LMArena French12581472
LMArena German12621487
LMArena Japanese12521461
LMArena Korean12211434
LMArena Russian12881461
LMArena Spanish12431473

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
IFEval83.1%84%
LMArena Instruction Following12581437
LiveBench Instruction Following—80.6%

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Longer Query12841449
Fiction.LiveBench—91.7%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Text12871458
LMArena Creative Writing12851454
WildBench79.2%85.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn12531453
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1421
LiveBench Language—67.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Gemini 2.5 Pro?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Gemini 2.5 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemini 2.5 Pro share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78.

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