Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Pro vs o4-mini
o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 1 category and o4-mini in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where o4-mini leads 45.5 to 29.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 35.6% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 72% for o4-mini.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 41.6 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2025-04-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 60 |
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Category by category
Coding o4-mini leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 35.6% | 72% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 45% |
| GSO | — | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1368 |
| CadEval | — | 62% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 826.17 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.72 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 53.2% |
| GDPval | — | 25.3% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 63.9% |
Reasoning o4-mini leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | 0.7% | 9.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.06 | 145.64 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 38.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 58.7% |
| CritPt | — | 0.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 60.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1351 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 77.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 68% | — |
| LMCA | — | 26.5% |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.8 |
| LiveBench | 65.1% | — |
Math o4-mini leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 83.5% | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 36.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 81.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 72% |
| LiveBench Math | 71% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1389 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 24.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |
Knowledge o4-mini leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.7% | 79.6% |
| Confabulations | 18.4% | 15.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 18.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 82% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 73.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1343 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1194 |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 57.5% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1354 |
| LMArena French | — | 1364 |
| LMArena German | — | 1336 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1308 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1312 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1334 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1347 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 83.4% | — |
| IFEval | — | 92.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1321 |
Long Context o4-mini leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 41.7% | 77.8% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1315 |
Writing & Preference o4-mini leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1294 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75% |
| WildBench | — | 85.4% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1350 |
| LiveBench Language | 44.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than o4-mini?
o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or o4-mini better for coding?
o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and o4-mini share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.