Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs GPT-3.5-turbo

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 23.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

34.8

Rank #223 Confirmed

GPT-3.5-turbo OpenAI

23.1

Rank #345 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-3.5-turbo in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 36.1 to 6.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 82.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 15.9% for GPT-3.5-turbo.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and GPT-3.5-turbo specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index34.823.1
Released2024-12-062023-03-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—16K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked5444

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308), GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.5 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
WeirdML25.8%3.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%39.1%
LMArena Coding13511137
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%50.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
CadEval30%—
HumanEval+—70.7%
MBPP+—69.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85), GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
METR Time Horizons—21.5%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308), GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.3 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts13461108
DTBench63.2%48.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36118.48
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—3%
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LMCA—9.7%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—61.6%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—57%
ForecastBench—50.4
LiveBench66.9%—
WinoGrande—81.6%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127), GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.0 (#321)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%2.2%
LMArena Math13511142
MATH Level 582.2%15.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0%
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—
GSM8K—57.8%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207), GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
GPQA Diamond64.1%28%
LMArena Expert13401070
MMLU79.7%71.4%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.4%
BoolQ—87%
OpenBookQA—86%
TriviaQA—85.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74), GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144), GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.6 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Non-English13421108
LMArena Chinese13731075
LMArena French13901117
LMArena German13541090
LMArena Japanese12931043
LMArena Korean13141019
LMArena Russian13511123
LMArena Spanish13631120

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91), GPT-3.5-turbo: 58.1 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Instruction Following13361119
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198), GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#249)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Longer Query13451121
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184), GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.4 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Text13541125
LMArena Creative Writing13401092
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128451
LMArena Multi-Turn13501117
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
WildBench80%—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than GPT-3.5-turbo?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 23.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or GPT-3.5-turbo better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.2 versus 23.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and GPT-3.5-turbo share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and GPT-3.5-turbo has 44.

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