Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs GPT-4.1 nano

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

31.9

Rank #253 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.7

Rank #322 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-4.1 nano in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 39.7 to 23.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 73.7% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 55% for GPT-4.1 nano.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and GPT-4.1 nano specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index31.927.7
Released2024-02-152025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked4538

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239), GPT-4.1 nano: 23.8 (#325)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
WeirdML22.2%19%
LMArena Coding12941306
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval34%—
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.3 (#98)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.6 (#344)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
ARC-AGI-20.8%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts12961286
DTBench59%52.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73129.62
SimpleBench27.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
LMCA—5.5%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
ForecastBench58.4—

Math GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260), GPT-4.1 nano: 25.5 (#246)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%28.9%
Omni-MATH36.4%36.7%
LMArena Math13151274
MATH Level 570.4%70%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228), GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond57.2%48.9%
MMLU-Pro73.7%55%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%50.7%
LMArena Expert12791272
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—6%
Confabulations13.5%—
MMLU86.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72), GPT-4.1 nano: 28.6 (#108)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision11611063
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169), GPT-4.1 nano: 41.8 (#200)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English13121260
LMArena Chinese13311270
LMArena German12861288
LMArena Japanese12921199
LMArena Russian13201261
LMArena French1301—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Spanish1310—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180), GPT-4.1 nano: 68.0 (#188)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
IFEval83.7%84.3%
LMArena Instruction Following12971267

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164), GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#291)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Longer Query13081283
Fiction.LiveBench—25%

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167), GPT-4.1 nano: 40.7 (#238)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text13191285
LMArena Creative Writing13331260
WildBench81.3%81.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn12961277
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than GPT-4.1 nano?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or GPT-4.1 nano better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 23.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and GPT-4.1 nano share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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