# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Granite 4.0 Micro

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-granite-4-0-micro
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 26.2 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 67.8% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 39.5% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 28.8 |
| Rank | 240 | 312 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.017 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1262 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 2.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | 20.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 28.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | 39.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | 30.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | — |
| LMArena French | 1257 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1220 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1242 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | 84.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 79.2% | 67% |
| LMArena Text | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.