Model comparison
Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-5 Mini
Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 41.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 9 categories and GPT-5 Mini in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 46.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 99% for Gemini 4 Argon and 9% for GPT-5 Mini.
Side by side
| Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 56.5 | 41.8 |
| Released | 2026-09-30 | 2025-08-07 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 400K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 60 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 61.8% | 39.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1550 | 1406 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 64.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 59.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1678 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 39.7% |
| FrontierSWE | 55% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 52.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 799.77 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.38 |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | 13,718 | -31.18 |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 34.8% |
| APEX-Agents | 82.2% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 55.5% |
Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 27.1% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1548 | 1380 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 70.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 54.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 30% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 8.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 10% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LMCA | — | 34.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 145.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61 |
Math Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 99% | 9% |
| LMArena Math | 1536 | 1378 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 12.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 72.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 27.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |
Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1553 | 1379 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 19.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 21.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 83.5% |
| Confabulations | — | 13.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 12.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 75.6% |
Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1202 |
| VPCT | — | 40.2% |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 54.4% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1523 | 1363 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1610 | 1385 |
| LMArena Russian | 1537 | 1362 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1497 | 1355 |
| LMArena French | — | 1386 |
| LMArena German | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1308 |
Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1538 | 1357 |
| IFEval | — | 92.7% |
Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1549 | 1355 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 69.4% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads
Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148)
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1534 | 1373 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1531 | 1325 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1557 | 1363 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83.1% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1313 |
| WildBench | — | 85.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 4 Argon better than GPT-5 Mini?
Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 41.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 4 Argon or GPT-5 Mini better for coding?
Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5 Mini share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Mini has 60.