# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Sonar

> Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where Sonar leads 31.3 to 20.8.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 37.8 |
| Rank | 240 | 184 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $1 |
| Output $/M | — | $1 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233)
- Sonar: 35.1 (#217)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 35.1% |
| 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)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212)
- Sonar: 20.3 (#221)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 37.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 46.9% |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274)
- Sonar: 31.3 (#197)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 41.6% |
| 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)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76)
- Sonar: —

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

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- Sonar: 71.5 (#146)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 76.2% |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190)
- Sonar: 52.6 (#166)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 44.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Sonar?

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Sonar better for coding?

Sonar scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.