Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs o1-mini

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and o1-mini in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where o1-mini leads 35.4 to 22.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 46.9% for o1-mini.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and o1-mini specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index33.234.0
Released2024-05-142024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4239

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Category by category

Coding o1-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
WeirdML24.9%36.3%
LMArena Coding12611362
HumanEval+75.6%89%
MBPP+67.5%78.8%
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LiveBench Coding—48%
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
Cybench—10%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
LMArena Hard Prompts12571333
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36135.82
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—18.1%
ARC-AGI-1—14%
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
DTBench53.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
ForecastBench53.9—
LiveBench—57.8%
PIQA87.5%—

Math o1-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%46.9%
LMArena Math12691358
MATH Level 561.9%89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%1.7%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LiveBench Math—62%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge o1-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
GPQA Diamond47.3%62.4%
LMArena Expert12331316
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
Confabulations—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
LMArena Non-English12781289
LMArena Chinese12951314
LMArena French12581293
LMArena German12621278
LMArena Japanese12521245
LMArena Korean12211223
LMArena Russian12881283
LMArena Spanish12431303

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following12581304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context o1-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
LMArena Longer Query12841320

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o1-mini
LMArena Text12871317
LMArena Creative Writing12851244
LMArena Multi-Turn12531314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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