# Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs o1-mini

> Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-vs-o1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 35

## Summary

- They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and o1-mini in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 66.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Instruction Following: 85.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 65.4% for o1-mini.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 34.0 |
| Rank | 228 | 235 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | 48% |
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1362 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
| Cybench | — | 10% |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | 18.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | 72.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1333 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | 57.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 135.82 |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | 57.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | 62% |
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | 1.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 62.4% |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | 18.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1316 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
- o1-mini: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1293 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1303 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | 65.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1304 |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1320 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1244 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | 64.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | 40.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than o1-mini?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or o1-mini better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and o1-mini share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.