Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 39 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

34.8

Rank #223 Confirmed

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.7

Rank #115 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 39 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5 Mini in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 Mini leads 45.5 to 32.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 13.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 59.8% for GPT-5 Mini.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and GPT-5 Mini specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index34.841.7
Released2024-12-062025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked5460

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308), GPT-5 Mini: 40.0 (#134)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%59.8%
WeirdML25.8%52.7%
LMArena Coding13511406
SWE-bench Verified—64.7%
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual—39.7%
SciCode—39.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—
ALE-Bench—799.77
AlgoTune—1.38

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85), GPT-5 Mini: 31.0 (#64)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
Terminal-Bench—34.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.5%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
Vending-Bench 2—-31.18

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308), GPT-5 Mini: 24.1 (#153)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
ARC-AGI-21.3%4.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%70.3%
EnigmaEval1.1%8.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461380
DTBench63.2%80.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36145.51
SimpleBench31.1%—
ARC-AGI-1—54.3%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—30%
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—10%
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LMCA—34.2%
ForecastBench—61
LiveBench66.9%—

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127), GPT-5 Mini: 46.3 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%86.7%
Omni-MATH45.9%72.2%
LMArena Math13511377
MATH Level 582.2%97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%27.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—12.2%
ProofBench—9%
LiveBench Math75.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207), GPT-5 Mini: 45.5 (#80)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
GPQA Diamond64.1%75%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%19.4%
MMLU-Pro73.7%83.5%
Confabulations12.4%13.3%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%75.6%
LMArena Expert13401377
SimpleQA Verified—21.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74), GPT-5 Mini: 35.0 (#80)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Vision11581202
GeoBench77%—
VPCT—40.2%

Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144), GPT-5 Mini: 49.1 (#131)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Non-English13421363
LMArena Chinese13731387
LMArena French13901385
LMArena German13541366
LMArena Japanese12931342
LMArena Korean13141306
LMArena Russian13511362
LMArena Spanish13631355

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91), GPT-5 Mini: 76.4 (#43)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
IFEval84.1%92.7%
LMArena Instruction Following13361357
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—

Long Context GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198), GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#127)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%69.4%
LMArena Longer Query13451355

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184), GPT-5 Mini: 55.4 (#143)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text13541373
LMArena Creative Writing13401325
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%83.1%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11281313
WildBench80%85.5%
LMArena Multi-Turn13501363
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or GPT-5 Mini better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and GPT-5 Mini share?

39 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Mini has 60.

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