Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs gpt-oss-20b

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and gpt-oss-20b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 32.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

gpt-oss-20b OpenAI

32.5

Rank #255 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 5 categories and gpt-oss-20b in 4 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 52.4 to 35.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 65.3% for gpt-oss-20b.
  • gpt-oss-20b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and gpt-oss-20b specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index32.132.5
Released2024-02-152025-08-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.018
Output $ / M tokens—$0.09
Results tracked4534

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Category by category

Coding gpt-oss-20b leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#192)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
WeirdML22.2%40.9%
LMArena Coding12941306
SciCode—34.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval34%—
ALE-Bench—566.05
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), gpt-oss-20b: 9.3 (#154)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
Terminal-Bench—3.4%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning gpt-oss-20b leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), gpt-oss-20b: 19.3 (#261)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Hard Prompts12961274
DTBench59%68%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73137.82
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—53.2%
CritPt—1.4%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMCA—14.5%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
ForecastBench58.4—

Math gpt-oss-20b leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), gpt-oss-20b: 39.4 (#103)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%65.3%
Omni-MATH36.4%56.5%
LMArena Math13151317
MATH Level 570.4%—

Knowledge gpt-oss-20b leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#195)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
GPQA Diamond57.2%60.8%
MMLU-Pro73.7%74%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%59.4%
LMArena Expert12791258
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
Confabulations13.5%—
MMLU86.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), gpt-oss-20b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), gpt-oss-20b: 42.2 (#197)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Non-English13121268
LMArena Chinese13311314
LMArena German12861255
LMArena Japanese12921244
LMArena Korean12981236
LMArena Russian13201278
LMArena Spanish13111267
LMArena French1302—

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), gpt-oss-20b: 61.8 (#240)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
IFEval83.7%73.2%
LMArena Instruction Following12971236

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#209)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Longer Query13081250

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), gpt-oss-20b: 35.5 (#265)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Text13191287
LMArena Creative Writing13331201
WildBench81.3%73.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn12961268
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—666

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than gpt-oss-20b?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and gpt-oss-20b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 32.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or gpt-oss-20b better for coding?

gpt-oss-20b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and gpt-oss-20b share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-20b has 34.

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