Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs o3-mini

o3-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

o3-mini OpenAI

36.7

Rank #212 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and o3-mini in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where o3-mini leads 29.6 to 17.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 76.9% for o3-mini.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and o3-mini specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index32.136.7
Released2024-02-152024-12-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.10
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked4551

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Category by category

Coding o3-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), o3-mini: 40.8 (#132)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
WeirdML22.2%43.7%
LMArena Coding12941378
CadEval34%54%
Aider Polyglot—60.4%
SciCode—39.8%
GSO—1.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
LiveBench Coding—82.7%
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use o3-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), o3-mini: 29.6 (#84)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
Cybench7.5%22.5%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning o3-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), o3-mini: 16.3 (#305)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
ARC-AGI-20.8%3%
SimpleBench27.1%22.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts12961366
DTBench59%68.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73140.34
ForecastBench58.459.6
ARC-AGI-1—34.5%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—17%
LiveBench Reasoning—89.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—70.6%
LMCA—19%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
LiveBench—75.9%

Math o3-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), o3-mini: 28.1 (#244)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%76.9%
LMArena Math13151396
MATH Level 570.4%96.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—0%
Omni-MATH36.4%—
LiveBench Math—77.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—12.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge o3-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), o3-mini: 38.3 (#146)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
GPQA Diamond57.2%77%
Confabulations13.5%17.9%
LMArena Expert12791364
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—15.3%
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
GPQA (HELM)53.4%—
MMLU86.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), o3-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), o3-mini: 45.7 (#164)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
LMArena Non-English13121319
LMArena Chinese13311379
LMArena French13021334
LMArena German12861303
LMArena Japanese12921286
LMArena Korean12981314
LMArena Russian13201304
LMArena Spanish13111321

Instruction Following o3-mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), o3-mini: 75.1 (#72)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
LMArena Instruction Following12971337
LiveBench Instruction Following—84.4%
IFEval83.7%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), o3-mini: 33.8 (#256)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
LMArena Longer Query13081343
Fiction.LiveBench—50%

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), o3-mini: 50.3 (#182)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)o3-mini
LMArena Text13191337
LMArena Creative Writing13331286
LMArena Multi-Turn12961320
Short-Story Creative Writing—61.7%
WildBench81.3%—
LiveBench Language—50.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than o3-mini?

o3-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or o3-mini better for coding?

o3-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and o3-mini share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.

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