Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs GPT-5.5 Instant

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

44.9

Rank #67 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI

42.5

Rank #99 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-5.5 Instant in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 59.7 to 43.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84.7% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 68.1% for GPT-5.5 Instant.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5.5 Instant specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index44.942.5
Released2025-03-252026-05-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7827

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.8 (#86), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.7 (#73)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
SciCode42.8%48.6%
LMArena Coding14521433
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.1 (#81), GPT-5.5 Instant: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
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 (#85), GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.2 (#149)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
CritPt2%0%
Chess Puzzles20%12%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551426
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32142.48
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 31.9 (#191), GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.1 (#241)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%26.3%
FrontierMath Tier 40%2.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%68.1%
LMArena Math14501420
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
MATH Level 595.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.8 (#41), GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#68)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
GPQA Diamond85.3%82.5%
LMArena Expert14521409
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 44.5 (#16), GPT-5.5 Instant: 39.3 (#48)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Vision12631250
LMArena Document14211403
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.5 (#30), GPT-5.5 Instant: 53.0 (#76)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Non-English14521417
LMArena Chinese15071457
LMArena French14731428
LMArena German14871410
LMArena Japanese14621408
LMArena Korean14351393
LMArena Russian14601430
LMArena Spanish14731430

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.2 (#71), GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.4 (#94)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Instruction Following14361407
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.7 (#5), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#92)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Longer Query14491422
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.9 (#60), GPT-5.5 Instant: 62.0 (#81)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Text14581419
LMArena Creative Writing14531420
LMArena Multi-Turn14531434
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than GPT-5.5 Instant?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-5.5 Instant better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.8 vs 43.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5.5 Instant share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Instant has 27.

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