Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs GPT-4 Turbo

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 9 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 22.1 to 9.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 61.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 46.7% for GPT-4 Turbo.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-4 Turbo specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index33.230.5
Released2024-05-142023-11-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked4236

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
WeirdML24.9%18%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%48.2%
LMArena Coding12611268
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%58.2%
HumanEval+75.6%86.6%
MBPP+67.5%73.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), GPT-4 Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
BALROG14.6%—
METR Time Horizons—36.7%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts12571251
DTBench53.8%61.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36127.25
ForecastBench53.959.4
SimpleBench—25.1%
Chess Puzzles—6%
LMCA—9.8%
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%6.7%
LMArena Math12691272
MATH Level 561.9%46.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
GPQA Diamond47.3%46.6%
LMArena Expert12331223
MMLU77.9%81.3%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
Confabulations—28.4%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Vision11411090
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Non-English12781245
LMArena Chinese12951242
LMArena French12581276
LMArena German12621259
LMArena Japanese12521194
LMArena Korean12211187
LMArena Russian12881259
LMArena Spanish12431260

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following12581249
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Longer Query12841254

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Text12871272
LMArena Creative Writing12851269
LMArena Multi-Turn12531267
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than GPT-4 Turbo?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 33.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-4 Turbo share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.

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