Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 leads 37.1 to 26.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 43.7% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 65.9% for GPT-4.1.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-4.1 specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index33.235.9
Released2024-05-142025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked4252

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
WeirdML24.9%39%
LMArena Coding12611391
SWE-bench Verified—48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—39.6%
Aider Polyglot—52.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
CadEval—42%
ALE-Bench—558.1
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—54%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts12571384
DTBench53.8%68.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36136.78
ForecastBench53.961.5
ARC-AGI-2—0.4%
SimpleBench—27%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5.5%
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval—2.2%
LMCA—25.6%
PIQA87.5%—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%38.3%
Omni-MATH30.4%47.1%
LMArena Math12691370
MATH Level 561.9%83%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%5.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
GPQA Diamond47.3%66.9%
MMLU-Pro67.8%81.1%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%65.9%
LMArena Expert12331364
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
SimpleQA Verified—31.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.6%
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal GPT-4.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
LMArena Vision11411211
GeoBench76%72%
Video-MME70.3%—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English12781370
LMArena Chinese12951382
LMArena French12581382
LMArena German12621381
LMArena Japanese12521319
LMArena Korean12211339
LMArena Russian12881377
LMArena Spanish12431376

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
IFEval83.1%83.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12581367

Long Context GPT-4.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
LMArena Longer Query12841385
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)GPT-4.1
LMArena Text12871383
LMArena Creative Writing12851363
WildBench79.2%85.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn12531398
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1420

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than GPT-4.1?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or GPT-4.1 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 34.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and GPT-4.1 share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.

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