Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs GPT-4.1 mini

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 38 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 38 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 7 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 24.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 61.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 44.4% for GPT-4.1 mini.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and GPT-4.1 mini specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index35.133.6
Released2024-12-062025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked5447

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%23.9%
Aider Polyglot38.2%32.4%
WeirdML25.8%37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%48.9%
LMArena Coding13501367
CadEval30%16%
SciCode—40.4%
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
ARC-AGI-21.3%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%48.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461349
DTBench63.2%68.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36135.01
SimpleBench31.1%—
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—7%
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LMCA—21.1%
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%44.7%
Omni-MATH45.9%49.1%
LMArena Math13521343
MATH Level 582.2%87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%4.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
LiveBench Math75.8%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
GPQA Diamond64.1%65.8%
MMLU-Pro73.7%78.3%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%61.4%
LMArena Expert13391338
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
Confabulations12.4%—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision11581181
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English13421318
LMArena Chinese13731329
LMArena French13911358
LMArena German13531351
LMArena Japanese12941290
LMArena Korean13131298
LMArena Russian13511324
LMArena Spanish13631319

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
IFEval84.1%90.4%
LMArena Instruction Following13361333
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%44.4%
LMArena Longer Query13441344

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text13541340
LMArena Creative Writing13401300
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11281147
WildBench80%83.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn13501354
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than GPT-4.1 mini?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

GPT-4.1 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.6 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and GPT-4.1 mini share?

38 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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