Model comparison
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 29.2 to 21.9.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 45.0 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2025-03-25 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 78 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.8 (#133)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 42.8% | 42.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57.6% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 53.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1227 | — |
| GSO | 3.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 54% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 85.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1452 | — |
| CadEval | 64% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 785.52 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.51 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#136)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 32.6% | — |
| GDPval | 23.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 0.8% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 30.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 13.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| BALROG | 43.3% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 2% |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 55.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 573.64 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 22.4 (#194)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 2% | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 62.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 70.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 41% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 89.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1455 | — |
| DTBench | 82.4% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 79.9% | — |
| LMCA | 34.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.32 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.3 | — |
| LiveBench | 82.3% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 24.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 41.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 90.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1450 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 95.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 14.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 21.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 10.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 74.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1452 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1263 | — |
| GeoBench | 86% | — |
| VPCT | 48% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1421 | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 44.7% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1451 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1507 | — |
| LMArena French | 1472 | — |
| LMArena German | 1487 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1461 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1434 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1461 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 80.6% | — |
| IFEval | 84% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1437 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 91.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1449 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1458 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1454 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1421 | — |
| WildBench | 85.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1453 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 67.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.