Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): benchmark scores, price and ranking

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) from Google DeepMind ranks #701 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (42.6), based on 4 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation
Google DeepMind
Type
Fast / low-cost (flash) model
Open weights
No
Released
2024-05-23 (source: epoch)
Aggregate rank
#701 of 743 (score 42.6)

Relative to other models, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is strongest on Epoch ECI (#119 of 204) and weakest on DTBench (#126 of 146).

Across the 4 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) benchmark results

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
BenchmarkScoreRankSourceCaptured
Epoch ECI123#119 of 204Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
GPQA Diamond40.4%#222 of 275Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
OTIS Mock AIME3.9%#163 of 189Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
DTBench51.4%#126 of 146Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13

About Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is a smaller, lower-cost model from Google DeepMind. It was released on 2024-05-23, according to Epoch AI. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 4 benchmark results for it across 3 areas, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) stands

On our aggregate score, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is #701 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 42.6; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 7.4 points below the typical model. That beats 6% of the ranked field. Among the 41 ranked Google DeepMind models it is #35. The next one up is gemini-1.5-flash-002 at 42.8. The next one down is gemma-3-1b-it at 42.4.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024), benchmark by benchmark

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) lands below the middle on Epoch ECI: 123, #119 of 204, with 58% of the field scoring higher. Qwen 3.8 Max leads at 156; the closest result above is Llama 3-70B at 123. It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is 5 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

GPQA Diamond is a weak spot. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores 40.4%, #222 of 275, behind 80% of the models measured. The leader, GPT-6 Astra (max), reaches 95.8%. It covers expert-level science questions. The board median is 71.7%, so Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is 31.3 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

OTIS Mock AIME is a weak spot. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores 3.9%, #163 of 189, behind 86% of the models measured. The leader, Claude Fable 5.1 (max), reaches 100.0%. It covers competition maths (AIME 2024-25 style). The board median is 57.8%, so Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is 53.9 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

DTBench is a weak spot. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores 51.4%, #126 of 146, behind 86% of the models measured. The leader, Claude Opus 5.5 (max), reaches 98.9%. It covers dynamic tool-use benchmark. The board median is 68.8%, so Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is 17.4 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Strengths and weaknesses

Reasoning, maths and science: weak, ahead of 17% of the field on average across 2 benchmarks. Its best board here is GPQA Diamond (#222 of 275) and its weakest is OTIS Mock AIME (#163 of 189).

Release history

The Google DeepMind model released before it was gemini-1.5-pro-001 on 2024-05-14, which scores 44.0. The next one was gemma-2-27b on 2024-06-24, at 43.7.

Reading these numbers

The 4 scores on this page come from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (4). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 4 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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