Model comparison

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 39 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 39 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and GPT-4o in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 21.7 to 9.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BALROG: 14.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 32.3% for GPT-4o.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-4o specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index33.228.6
Released2024-05-142024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked4272

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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-4o: 24.8 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
WeirdML24.9%25.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%51.1%
LMArena Coding12611297
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%61.1%
HumanEval+75.6%87.2%
MBPP+67.5%72.2%
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
GSO—0%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
CadEval—26%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
BALROG14.6%32.3%
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
LMArena Search—1006
METR Time Horizons—40.8%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
LMArena Hard Prompts12571281
DTBench53.8%64.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36128.97
ForecastBench53.957.7
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—17.8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—13%
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LMCA—16.6%
LiveBench—55.3%
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%6.4%
Omni-MATH30.4%29.3%
LMArena Math12691285
MATH Level 561.9%53.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%0.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.4%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
GPQA Diamond47.3%49.2%
MMLU-Pro67.8%71.3%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%52%
LMArena Expert12331250
MMLU77.9%88.1%
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
SimpleQA Verified—26%
Confabulations—15.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
BoolQ85.8%—

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
LMArena Vision11411137
Video-MME70.3%71.9%
GeoBench76%71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
LMArena Non-English12781283
LMArena Chinese12951277
LMArena French12581304
LMArena German12621282
LMArena Japanese12521257
LMArena Korean12211234
LMArena Russian12881286
LMArena Spanish12431292

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
IFEval83.1%81.7%
LMArena Instruction Following12581278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query12841289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4o
LMArena Text12871300
LMArena Creative Writing12851292
WildBench79.2%82.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn12531302
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

39 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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