Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Pro vs GPT-5 Nano

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Pro Google

39.1

Rank #173 Confirmed

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.5

Rank #241 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and GPT-5 Nano in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.0 Pro leads 52.7 to 39.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 83.5% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 95.2% for GPT-5 Nano.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Pro and GPT-5 Nano specifications
Gemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index39.133.5
Released2025-02-052025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1449

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187), GPT-5 Nano: 33.6 (#254)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—34.8%
Aider Polyglot35.6%—
WeirdML—38.1%
LiveBench Coding63.5%—
LMArena Coding—1351
ALE-Bench—718.67

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, GPT-5 Nano: 25.8 (#106)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
Terminal-Bench—21.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—51.5%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198), GPT-5 Nano: 16.3 (#306)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
Epoch Capabilities Index135.06139.38
ARC-AGI-2—2.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—62.2%
ARC-AGI-1—20.7%
Chess Puzzles—27%
EnigmaEval0.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning60.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1328
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—62.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis68%—
LMCA—7.9%
ForecastBench—59.1
LiveBench65.1%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100), GPT-5 Nano: 29.4 (#241)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
MATH Level 583.5%95.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.1%
ProofBench—12%
Omni-MATH—54.6%
LiveBench Math71%—
LMArena Math—1317
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167), GPT-5 Nano: 35.9 (#178)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
GPQA Diamond65.7%69.4%
SimpleQA Verified—11.7%
MMLU-Pro—77.8%
Confabulations18.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
GPQA (HELM)—67.9%
LMArena Expert—1321

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#108)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision—1159
VPCT—37.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, GPT-5 Nano: 45.3 (#172)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Non-English—1313
LMArena Chinese—1356
LMArena German—1327
LMArena Japanese—1226
LMArena Korean—1269
LMArena Russian—1296
LMArena Spanish—1360

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59), GPT-5 Nano: 75.0 (#79)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
LiveBench Instruction Following83.4%—
IFEval—93.2%
LMArena Instruction Following—1306

Long Context GPT-5 Nano leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292), GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#281)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
Fiction.LiveBench41.7%44.4%
LMArena Longer Query—1312

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165), GPT-5 Nano: 39.1 (#249)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text—1320
LMArena Creative Writing—1249
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—705
WildBench—80.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1311
LiveBench Language44.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than GPT-5 Nano?

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or GPT-5 Nano better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 33.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and GPT-5 Nano share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Nano has 49.

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