# Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs o1-mini

> o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-o1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 28

## Summary

- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and o1-mini in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o1-mini leads 33.7 to 24.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 46.9% for o1-mini.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 33.7 |
| Rank | 253 | 230 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239)
- o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 22.2% | 36.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | 1362 |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | 89% |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | 78.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137)
- o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 7.5% | 10% |
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332)
- o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | 18.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | 1333 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | 135.82 |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| DTBench | 59% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260)
- o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | 46.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1315 | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | 89.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228)
- o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | 62.4% |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | 18.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | 1316 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72)
- o1-mini: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169)
- o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1301 | 1292 |
| LMArena German | 1286 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1310 | 1302 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180)
- o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164)
- o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | 1321 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167)
- o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or o1-mini better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and o1-mini share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.
