Model comparison
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs o1-mini
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 36 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 36 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and o1-mini in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 34.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 83.1% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 32.9% for o1-mini.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 45.0 | 34.0 |
| Released | 2025-03-25 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 78 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 83.1% | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | 54% | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 85.9% | 48% |
| LMArena Coding | 1452 | 1362 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57.6% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 53.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1227 | — |
| SciCode | 42.8% | — |
| GSO | 3.9% | — |
| CadEval | 64% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 785.52 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.51 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 32.6% | — |
| GDPval | 23.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 0.8% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 30.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 13.7% | — |
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| BALROG | 43.3% | — |
| 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), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | 62.4% | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 41% | 14% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 89.8% | 72.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1455 | 1333 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 79.9% | 57.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.32 | 135.82 |
| LiveBench | 82.3% | 57.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 70.3% | — |
| CritPt | 2% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| DTBench | 82.4% | — |
| LMCA | 34.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.3 | — |
Math o1-mini leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84.7% | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 90.2% | 62% |
| LMArena Math | 1450 | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | 95.9% | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 14.1% | 1.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 24.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 41.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.3% | 62.4% |
| Confabulations | 10.6% | 18.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1452 | 1316 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 21.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 74.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), o1-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1263 | — |
| GeoBench | 86% | — |
| VPCT | 48% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1421 | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 44.7% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1451 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1507 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1472 | 1293 |
| LMArena German | 1487 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1461 | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | 1434 | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | 1461 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | 1303 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 80.6% | 65.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1437 | 1304 |
| IFEval | 84% | — |
Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1449 | 1320 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 91.7% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1458 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1454 | 1244 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.8% | 64.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1453 | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | 67.8% | 40.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1421 | — |
| WildBench | 85.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than o1-mini?
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or o1-mini better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and o1-mini share?
36 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.