Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs GPT-4.1 mini

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-4.1 mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 5 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 21.7 to 10.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-4.1 mini specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index33.233.6
Released2024-05-142025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked4247

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
WeirdML24.9%37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%48.9%
LMArena Coding12611367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
CadEval—16%
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Hard Prompts12571349
DTBench53.8%68.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36135.01
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%
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%44.7%
Omni-MATH30.4%49.1%
LMArena Math12691343
MATH Level 561.9%87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%4.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
GPQA Diamond47.3%65.8%
MMLU-Pro67.8%78.3%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%61.4%
LMArena Expert12331338
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision11411181
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English12781318
LMArena Chinese12951329
LMArena French12581358
LMArena German12621351
LMArena Japanese12521290
LMArena Korean12211298
LMArena Russian12881324
LMArena Spanish12431319

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
IFEval83.1%90.4%
LMArena Instruction Following12581333

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query12841344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text12871340
LMArena Creative Writing12851300
WildBench79.2%83.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn12531354
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than GPT-4.1 mini?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-4.1 mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-4.1 mini share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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