Model comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Olmo 7b Instruct
Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
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Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 5 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 52.3 to 24.0.
- Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | |
| Noometry Index | 39.3 | 30.3 |
| Released | 2025-04-17 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 54 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1424 | 1016 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 28.7% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 41.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 661.88 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 17.1% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 56.2% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 41.1% | — |
| BALROG | 33.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 548.84 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1422 | 993 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 2.5% | — |
| SimpleBench | 41.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 56.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 33.3% | — |
| CritPt | 1.1% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 2.7% | — |
| DTBench | 76.5% | — |
| LMCA | 27.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 143.03 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.6 | — |
Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1415 | 1018 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 38.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 12.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 63.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 16.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1426 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1253 | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
| VPCT | 46.2% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 36.9% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1409 | 977 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1450 | 1014 |
| LMArena Russian | 1415 | 947 |
| LMArena French | 1433 | — |
| LMArena German | 1418 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1405 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1385 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1421 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1405 | 978 |
| IFEval | 89.8% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 77.8% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1419 | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | 1032 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1400 | 990 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1408 | 1007 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1137 | — |
| WildBench | 81.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Olmo 7b Instruct?
Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Olmo 7b Instruct share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.