Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-4o

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 46 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 46 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 10 categories and GPT-4o in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 39.9 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 73.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 6.4% for GPT-4o.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-4o specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index39.328.6
Released2025-04-172024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$10
Results tracked5472

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%21.6%
Aider Polyglot55.1%45.3%
WeirdML41.9%25.1%
LMArena Coding14241297
SWE-bench Verified—31%
GSO—0%
BigCodeBench Instruct—51.1%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.1%
CadEval—26%
ALE-Bench661.88—
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
TheAgentCompany41.1%8.6%
BALROG33.5%32.3%
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
GDPval—9.9%
Cybench—12.5%
LMArena Search—1006
METR Time Horizons—40.8%
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
ARC-AGI-22.5%0%
SimpleBench41.2%17.8%
ARC-AGI-133.3%4.5%
CritPt1.1%0%
EnigmaEval2.7%0.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14221281
DTBench76.5%64.5%
LMCA27.5%16.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03128.97
ForecastBench60.657.7
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
Chess Puzzles—13%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LiveBench—55.3%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%6.4%
Omni-MATH38.5%29.3%
LMArena Math14151285
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%0.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.4%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
MATH Level 5—53.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%2.7%
MMLU-Pro63.9%71.3%
Confabulations16.8%15.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%9.6%
GPQA (HELM)39%52%
LMArena Expert14261250
GPQA Diamond—49.2%
SimpleQA Verified—26%
MMLU—88.1%

Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
LMArena Vision12531137
GeoBench76%71%
VPCT46.2%40%
Video-MME—71.9%
ScienceQA—88.5%
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
LMArena Non-English14091283
LMArena Chinese14501277
LMArena French14331304
LMArena German14181282
LMArena Japanese14051257
LMArena Korean13851234
LMArena Russian14151286
LMArena Spanish14211292

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
IFEval89.8%81.7%
LMArena Instruction Following14051278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%66.7%
LMArena Longer Query14191289

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
LMArena Text14171300
LMArena Creative Writing14001292
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%81.8%
WildBench81.7%82.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn14081302
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than GPT-4o?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-4o?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-4o better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-4o share?

46 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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