Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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- The widest gap is in coding, where Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads 40.8 to 34.4.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 42 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.8 (#133)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 42.7% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#136)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 2% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 22.4 (#194)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | — |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.