Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs GPT-4.1

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 50 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 50 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and GPT-4.1 in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 59.8 to 40.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84.7% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 38.3% for GPT-4.1.
  • Both cost about the same: $1.25 input and $10 output per million tokens.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-4.1 specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index45.035.9
Released2025-03-252025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K33K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$2
Output $ / M tokens$10$8
Results tracked7852

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
SWE-bench Verified57.6%48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%39.6%
Aider Polyglot83.1%52.4%
WeirdML54%39%
LMArena Coding14521391
CadEval64%42%
ALE-Bench785.52558.1
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—54%
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
ARC-AGI-24.9%0.4%
SimpleBench62.4%27%
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%52.3%
ARC-AGI-141%5.5%
Chess Puzzles20%6%
EnigmaEval5.6%2.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551384
DTBench82.4%68.3%
LMCA34.8%25.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32136.78
ForecastBench61.361.5
CritPt2%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%38.3%
Omni-MATH41.6%47.1%
LMArena Math14501370
MATH Level 595.9%83%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%5.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%0%
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
GPQA Diamond85.3%66.9%
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%5.4%
MMLU-Pro86.3%81.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%5.6%
GPQA (HELM)74.9%65.9%
LMArena Expert14521364
SimpleQA Verified—31.1%
Confabulations10.6%—

Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
LMArena Vision12631211
GeoBench86%72%
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English14511370
LMArena Chinese15071382
LMArena French14721382
LMArena German14871381
LMArena Japanese14611319
LMArena Korean14341339
LMArena Russian14611377
LMArena Spanish14731376

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
IFEval84%83.8%
LMArena Instruction Following14371367
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%63.9%
LMArena Longer Query14491385

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-4.1
LMArena Text14581383
LMArena Creative Writing14541363
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14211420
WildBench85.7%85.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn14531398
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than GPT-4.1?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-4.1?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is cheaper. It lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 lists at $2 and $8.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-4.1 better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-4.1 share?

50 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.

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