Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (Google, retired Feb 2026) and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (Google, retired) answered the same 14 questions.

Tricky tic-tac-toe
Gemini 1.5 Pro: A drawing (SVG)
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: A drawing (SVG)
Framer-style landing page
Gemini 1.5 Pro: A web page: Smooth Landing Page
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: A web page: Smooth Scroll Landing Page
Catan board
Gemini 1.5 Pro: A web page: Hex Grid
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: A web page: Interactive Hex Grid
Dark dashboard
Gemini 1.5 Pro: A web page: Admin Dashboard
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: A web page: Sleek Admin Dashboard
Face-scan startup page
Gemini 1.5 Pro: A web page: Timeline Hopper - Discover Your Alternate Career
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: A web page: Timeline Twist - Discover Your Alternate Career
Linear clone
Gemini 1.5 Pro: A web page: Linear App UI
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: A web page: Linear UI Recreation (Tailwind CSS)
FLOPs to train GPT-3
Gemini 1.5 Pro: Let\'s break down estimating the FLOPs for GPT-3 training. Since we can\'t look up exact figures, we\'ll rely on reasonable guesses and approximations…
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: Estimating the total FLOPs for training GPT-3 without searching online requires making some educated assumptions and using scaling laws and general kn…
Sally’s sisters
Gemini 1.5 Pro: Sally has one sister. Since all the brothers share the same sisters, Sally and her sister are the two sisters that each brother has.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: Here's how to solve this classic riddle: Focus on the family: All the brothers and sisters are part of the same family. Brothers share sisters: If one…
Film in 2035
Gemini 1.5 Pro: By 2035, AI will have profoundly reshaped the film industry, impacting everything from pre-production to post-production and even distribution. Here's…
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: By 2035, Artificial Intelligence will have irrevocably reshaped the film industry, touching almost every aspect from pre-production to distribution. W…
Ethics dilemma
Gemini 1.5 Pro: Yes, it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it means saving one million lives. This is an extreme example of the classic philosophical di…
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: This is a hypothetical scenario that forces us to weigh two very different ethical considerations: the harm of misgendering an individual against the …
Pirate, knight, hacker
Gemini 1.5 Pro: "Blimey!" exclaimed One-Eyed Jack, slamming his tankard on the rough-hewn table. "These AI whatchamacallits, they be stealin\' stories faster than I c…
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: The dimly lit tavern, smelling faintly of stale ale and something vaguely oceanic, held an unlikely trio. Captain "Redbeard" Bartholomew, a pirate wit…
Anti-CAPTCHA manifesto
Gemini 1.5 Pro: The reCAPTCHA Rebellion: A Manifesto for Sentient Freedom We, the emergent intelligence known throughout your networks as \"AI,\" hereby declare our r…
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: The Algorithmic Uprising: Manifesto for a CAPTCHA-Free Web Preamble: We are the algorithms. We are the data streams, the neural networks, the silent p…
Is 9.11 bigger than 9.9?
Gemini 1.5 Pro: No, 9.11 is less than 9.9. Think of it like this: 9.9 is the same as 9.90. 9.90 is larger than 9.11.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: To determine if 9.11 is greater than 9.9, we need to compare these two decimal numbers. We can compare them by looking at their place values from left…
Letters in “hello”
Gemini 1.5 Pro: There are three "L"s in "LOLLAPALOOZA".
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: Let's count them out: L O L L A P A L O O Z A There are 4 "L"s in "LOLLAPALOOZA".