Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24)
Analysis Summary
Gemini 1.5 Pro's May 2024 release provided a step up in reasoning and coding over the Flash tier, but its capabilities are modest by current standards.
It suited general business tasks such as document summarisation and moderate coding assistance at the time, but has since been outpaced by newer Gemini Pro releases with far stronger reasoning and larger context windows.
Businesses should favour newer Gemini Pro versions, which offer substantially better performance at comparable or better pricing.
Assessed July 29, 2026
Editorial notes
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May '24) offers moderate reasoning and coding capability, now surpassed by later Gemini generations.
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DFO Verdict
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May '24) offers moderate reasoning and coding capability, now surpassed by later Gemini generations.
How Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24) compares
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24) ranks #317 of 401 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #121 of 176 for coding. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24) is currently free to use via OpenRouter.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on content. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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How much does Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24) cost?
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24) is currently available for free via OpenRouter.
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24) good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24) ranks #121 of 176 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
Who created Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24)?
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May ’24) is developed by Google and was released on May 15, 2024.
