# Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs GPT-5-Codex

> GPT-5-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.9 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-gpt-5-codex
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5-Codex in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5-Codex leads 30.9 to 12.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 22.2% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 54.5% for GPT-5-Codex.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 37.9 |
| Rank | 261 | 192 |
| Context | — | 400K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)
- GPT-5-Codex: 42.4 (#103)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 22.2% | 54.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)
- GPT-5-Codex: 31.0 (#72)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 44.3% |
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)
- GPT-5-Codex: 30.9 (#83)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 70.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | — |
| DTBench | 59% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)
- GPT-5-Codex: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1315 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)
- GPT-5-Codex: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)
- GPT-5-Codex: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)
- GPT-5-Codex: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | — |
| LMArena French | 1302 | — |
| LMArena German | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1311 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)
- GPT-5-Codex: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)
- GPT-5-Codex: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)
- GPT-5-Codex: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | GPT-5-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | — |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than GPT-5-Codex?

GPT-5-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.9 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or GPT-5-Codex better for coding?

GPT-5-Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and GPT-5-Codex share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5-Codex has 3.