Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs GPT-4o mini

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.5

Rank #343 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 6 categories and GPT-4o mini in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 35.5 to 22.0.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and GPT-4o mini specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.925.5
Released2024-10-032024-07-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked2160

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Coding12181290
Aider Polyglot—3.6%
WeirdML—11.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.1%
LiveBench Coding—43.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.4%
HumanEval+—83.5%
MBPP+—72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
BALROG—17.4%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Hard Prompts12091267
DTBench50%54.4%
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—10.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—28.8%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—32.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50%
LMCA—10.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—126.56
LiveBench—41.3%
PIQA—88.7%

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%6.9%
LMArena Math12071267
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
Omni-MATH—28%
LiveBench Math—36.3%
MATH Level 5—52.6%
GSM8K—91.3%

Knowledge GPT-4o mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
GPQA Diamond33%37.7%
LMArena Expert11851235
SimpleQA Verified—8.3%
MMLU-Pro—60.3%
Confabulations—37.2%
GPQA (HELM)—36.8%
BoolQ—88.7%
MMLU—81.8%

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Vision10441066
Video-MME—64.8%
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—34%

Multilingual GPT-4o mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Non-English12151266
LMArena Chinese12311265
LMArena French12341297
LMArena German12061272
LMArena Japanese11501216
LMArena Korean11401195
LMArena Russian12361275
LMArena Spanish12121276

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Instruction Following11991258
LiveBench Instruction Following—56.8%
IFEval—78.2%

Long Context GPT-4o mini leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Longer Query12191289

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Text12261286
LMArena Creative Writing12181268
LMArena Multi-Turn11851285
Short-Story Creative Writing—67.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—873
WildBench—79.1%
LiveBench Language—28.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than GPT-4o mini?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or GPT-4o mini better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and GPT-4o mini share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o mini has 60.

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