Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and o1 in 8 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1 leads 41.5 to 26.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 73.3% for o1.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and o1 specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index33.240.9
Released2024-05-142024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked4252

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
WeirdML24.9%47.6%
LMArena Coding12611367
HumanEval+75.6%89%
MBPP+67.5%80.2%
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
CadEval—56%

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
Cybench—10%
BALROG14.6%—
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
LMArena Hard Prompts12571371
DTBench53.8%74.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36141.91
SimpleBench—41.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
ForecastBench53.9—
LiveBench—75.7%
PIQA87.5%—

Math o1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%73.3%
LMArena Math12691388
MATH Level 561.9%94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%9.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LiveBench Math—80.3%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge o1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
GPQA Diamond47.3%76.8%
LMArena Expert12331361
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
Confabulations—11.7%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
LMArena Vision11411168
GeoBench76%80%
Video-MME70.3%—
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
LMArena Non-English12781358
LMArena Chinese12951394
LMArena French12581344
LMArena German12621337
LMArena Japanese12521346
LMArena Korean12211396
LMArena Russian12881356
LMArena Spanish12431345

Instruction Following o1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
LMArena Instruction Following12581367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context o1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
LMArena Longer Query12841378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1
LMArena Text12871366
LMArena Creative Writing12851348
LMArena Multi-Turn12531369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and o1 share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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