Gemini 1.5 Pro vs o1-pro

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.

Gemini 1.5 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 55 to 33. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-pro is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 1.5 Pro is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemini 1.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 200K for o1-pro.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 1.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1-pro only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Knowledge

o1-pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

51.3

o1-pro

79

64
MMLU
-
64
GPQA
79
62
SuperGPQA
-
60
OpenBookQA
-
57
MMLU-Pro
-
1
HLE
-

Coding

Gemini 1.5 Pro
56
HumanEval
-
5
SWE-bench Verified
-
22
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

o1-pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

64.3

o1-pro

86

64
AIME 2023
-
66
AIME 2024
86
65
AIME 2025
-
60
HMMT Feb 2023
-
62
HMMT Feb 2024
-
61
HMMT Feb 2025
-
63
BRUMO 2025
-
73
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Gemini 1.5 Pro
62
SimpleQA
-
60
MuSR
-
74
BBH
-

Instruction Following

Gemini 1.5 Pro
77
IFEval
-

Multilingual

Gemini 1.5 Pro
76
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 1.5 Pro or o1-pro?

Gemini 1.5 Pro is ahead overall, 55 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 66 and 86.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 1.5 Pro or o1-pro?

o1-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 51.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Gemini 1.5 Pro or o1-pro?

o1-pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 64.3. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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