Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-4o mini

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

Gemini 2.5 Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 2.5 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for GPT-4o mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 2.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4o mini only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Knowledge

GPT-4o mini

Gemini 2.5 Flash

42.7

GPT-4o mini

82

50
MMLU
82
49
GPQA
-
47
SuperGPQA
-
45
OpenBookQA
-
64
MMLU-Pro
-
1
HLE
-

Coding

GPT-4o mini

Gemini 2.5 Flash

27.7

GPT-4o mini

87.2

42
HumanEval
87.2
23
SWE-bench Verified
-
18
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Gemini 2.5 Flash
50
AIME 2023
-
52
AIME 2024
-
51
AIME 2025
-
46
HMMT Feb 2023
-
48
HMMT Feb 2024
-
47
HMMT Feb 2025
-
49
BRUMO 2025
-
72
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Gemini 2.5 Flash
48
SimpleQA
-
46
MuSR
-
75
BBH
-

Instruction Following

Gemini 2.5 Flash
79
IFEval
-

Multilingual

GPT-4o mini

Gemini 2.5 Flash

74

GPT-4o mini

87

74
MGSM
87

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-4o mini?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is ahead overall, 49 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 42 and 87.2.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 42.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 87.2 versus 27.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87 versus 74. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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