Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs o4-mini

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 42 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 42 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 1 category and o4-mini in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where o4-mini leads 40.9 to 28.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 38.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 72% for o4-mini.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and o4-mini specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index35.141.6
Released2024-12-062025-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.10
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked5460

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Category by category

Coding o4-mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%45%
Aider Polyglot38.2%72%
WeirdML25.8%52.6%
LMArena Coding13501368
CadEval30%62%
GSO—3.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72

Agentic & Tool Use o4-mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning o4-mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
ARC-AGI-21.3%6.1%
SimpleBench31.1%38.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%67.6%
EnigmaEval1.1%9.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461351
DTBench63.2%77.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36145.64
ARC-AGI-1—58.7%
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—26%
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LMCA—26.5%
ForecastBench—61.8
LiveBench66.9%—

Math o4-mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%81.7%
Omni-MATH45.9%72%
LMArena Math13521389
MATH Level 582.2%97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%24.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
LiveBench Math75.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge o4-mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
GPQA Diamond64.1%79.6%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%18.1%
MMLU-Pro73.7%82%
Confabulations12.4%15.8%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%73.5%
LMArena Expert13391343
SimpleQA Verified—19.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal o4-mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
LMArena Vision11581194
GeoBench77%64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
LMArena Non-English13421337
LMArena Chinese13731354
LMArena French13911364
LMArena German13531336
LMArena Japanese12941308
LMArena Korean13131312
LMArena Russian13511334
LMArena Spanish13631347

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
IFEval84.1%92.8%
LMArena Instruction Following13361321
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—

Long Context o4-mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%77.8%
LMArena Longer Query13441315

Writing & Preference o4-mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)o4-mini
LMArena Text13541353
LMArena Creative Writing13401294
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%75%
WildBench80%85.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn13501350
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or o4-mini better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and o4-mini share?

42 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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