Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs o3-pro

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

o3-pro OpenAI

42.9

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and o3-pro in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o3-pro leads 72.2 to 39.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 24.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 58.2% for o3-pro.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and o3-pro specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index33.242.9
Released2024-05-142025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$20
Output $ / M tokens—$80
Results tracked4212

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Category by category

Coding o3-pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), o3-pro: 55.5 (#24)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
WeirdML24.9%58.2%
Aider Polyglot—84.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1261—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), o3-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning o3-pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), o3-pro: 23.8 (#171)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
DTBench53.8%86.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36147.42
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.1%
ARC-AGI-1—59.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
LMCA—38.5%
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), o3-pro: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge o3-pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), o3-pro: 29.5 (#238)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
Confabulations—14.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.3%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), o3-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), o3-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
LMArena Non-English1278—
LMArena Chinese1295—
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Russian1288—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), o3-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context o3-pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), o3-pro: 72.2 (#1)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference o3-pro leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), o3-pro: 57.1 (#133)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)o3-pro
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
Short-Story Creative Writing—84.4%
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than o3-pro?

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or o3-pro better for coding?

o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and o3-pro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.

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