Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs GPT-5.1

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.1 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.1 leads 52.2 to 22.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 88.6% for GPT-5.1.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-5.1 specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index33.249.0
Released2024-05-142025-11-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked4263

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
WeirdML24.9%60.8%
LMArena Coding12611454
SWE-bench Verified—68%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—66%
LMArena WebDev—1395
SciCode—43.3%
GSO—13.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LiveBench Coding—72.5%
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
ALE-Bench—1,192
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
Terminal-Bench—47.6%
DeepResearch Bench—42.8%
BALROG14.6%—
LMArena Search—1199
Vending-Bench 2—1,473

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
LMArena Hard Prompts12571457
DTBench53.8%90.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36149.64
ForecastBench53.958.1
ARC-AGI-2—17.6%
SimpleBench—53.2%
ARC-AGI-1—72.8%
CritPt—4.9%
Chess Puzzles—32%
EnigmaEval—11.2%
LiveBench Reasoning—95.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
LiveBench Data Analysis—72.1%
LMCA—43.9%
LiveBench—78.8%
PIQA87.5%—

Math GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%88.6%
Omni-MATH30.4%46.4%
LMArena Math12691447
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%31%
LiveBench Math—94.5%
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—12.5%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
GPQA Diamond47.3%87.6%
MMLU-Pro67.8%57.9%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%44.2%
LMArena Expert12331470
Humanity's Last Exam—23.7%
SimpleQA Verified—48%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.9%
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
LMArena Vision11411250
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT—58.7%
LMArena Document—1403

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
LMArena Non-English12781431
LMArena Chinese12951495
LMArena French12581450
LMArena German12621438
LMArena Japanese12521453
LMArena Korean12211401
LMArena Russian12881435
LMArena Spanish12431433

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
IFEval83.1%93.5%
LMArena Instruction Following12581443
LiveBench Instruction Following—93.3%

Long Context GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
LMArena Longer Query12841447
CL-bench—23.7%
CL-bench Life—17.3%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-5.1
LMArena Text12871443
LMArena Creative Writing12851427
WildBench79.2%86.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn12531450
LiveBench Language—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than GPT-5.1?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or GPT-5.1 better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-5.1 share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.1 has 63.

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