Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 32.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 5 categories and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 42.9 to 34.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 67.8% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 41.4% for Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct.
  • Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
ProviderGoogleAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index33.232.7
Released2024-05-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4216

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.2 (#227)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding12611210
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 23.6 (#175)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12571208
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 26.8 (#255)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
Omni-MATH30.4%16.1%
LMArena Math12691208
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.5 (#279)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
MMLU-Pro67.8%41.4%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%28.7%
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.8 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12781160
LMArena Chinese12951192
LMArena Russian12881187
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.5 (#244)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
IFEval83.1%78%
LMArena Instruction Following12581186

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#234)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12841194

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.1 (#236)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Text12871218
LMArena Creative Writing12851199
WildBench79.2%73.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn12531221

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 32.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 35.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16.

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