Roboflow

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Gemini 2.5 Pro score 87.3% vs 57.6% averaged across five Vision Evals tasks (#3 and #46 of 69 models), so Gemini 4 Hydrogen leads overall.

  • Gemini 4 Hydrogen wins all 5 tasks, with its widest lead on object detection (81.0% vs 33.7%).
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro is about half the cost: $0.0051 vs $0.0094 overall average cost per sample.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro is faster: 6.8s vs 13.2s per sample.

Compare Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen live

Run the same image across every model that supports a task and compare their outputs side-by-side.

Detect and compare bounding boxes across models on the same image.

Open Object Detection in the full playground
GoogleGemini 2.5 Pro
Run to compare this model.
GoogleGemini 4 Hydrogen
Run to compare this model.

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen on Vision Evals

Score by taskGemini 2.5 ProGemini 4 Hydrogen
Object Detection
33.7
81.0
Reasoning
42.4
88.1
Counting
52.7
83.8
OCR
65.2
86.7
Identification
93.8
96.9

Roboflow Vision Evals. Full breakdown below.

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen Comparison Table

Evals updated November 12, 2026Pricing updated November 13, 2026

PropertyGemini 2.5 ProGemini 4 Hydrogen
OrganizationGoogleGoogle
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJun 2025Nov 2026
Context Window1.0M1.0M
ParametersUnknownUnknown
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$1.25No published price
Output $/1M$10.00No published price
Vision Tasks
Chart Question AnsweringSupportedNot listed
Document Question AnsweringSupportedNot listed
Image TaggingSupportedNot listed
Multi-Label ClassificationSupportedNot listed
Promptable Concept SegmentationNot listedDemo
Both support 6 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
57.6%
87.3%
Avg cost / sample$0.0051$0.0094
Avg speed / sample6.83s13.23s
By task
Object Detection (low)
33.7%
$0.010
81.0%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.3 to 81.9
$0.016
Object Detection (high)–
83.3%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.4 to 83.8
$0.022
Counting (low)
52.7%
$0.0012
83.8%
±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.4 to 86.5
$0.0041
Counting (high)–
84.2%
±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.4 to 87.8
$0.012
Identification (low)
93.8%
$0.0012
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
$0.0030
Identification (high)–
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
$0.0039
OCR (low)
65.2%
$0.0046
86.7%
$0.0089
by category
Single value
60.9%
Transcription
86.8%
Structured JSON
76.3%
Text localization
35.9%
Single value
78.7%
Transcription
96.1%
Structured JSON
93.6%
Text localization
83.9%
OCR (high)
64.6%
$0.025
87.2%
$0.026
by category
Single value
63.0%
Transcription
87.3%
Structured JSON
78.3%
Text localization
20.6%
Single value
80.9%
Transcription
95.3%
Structured JSON
93.1%
Text localization
83.7%
Reasoning (low)
42.4%
$0.0013
88.1%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.4 to 88.7
$0.0046
Reasoning (high)
62.3%
$0.011
91.8%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.4 to 92.0
$0.013

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen: Overview

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro, released on June 17, 2025, is Google DeepMind’s most capable model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for deep reasoning, coding, and complex multimodal tasks. It accepts text, images, audio, video, and PDFs as input and outputs text. The model supports 1 million input tokens with an output capacity of up to 65K tokens, enabling large-scale comprehension of datasets, codebases, and technical documents. Its training knowledge extends to January 2025.

It supports structured outputs, function calling, code execution, search grounding, and URL context, making it well-suited for enterprise, STEM, and developer workflows. However, it does not currently support image or audio generation in its stable release, and its higher computational cost and latency make it less efficient than Flash or Flash-Lite. It is available via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI.

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Gemini 4 Hydrogen is a multimodal model from Google, positioned as a successor to Gemini 3.8 Flash with stronger agent and coding capabilities at Flash-class speed.

Frequently Asked Questions

On Roboflow's Vision Evals, Gemini 4 Hydrogen performed better. It scores higher on all five vision tasks and averages 87.3% (#3 of 69) against 57.6% (#46 of 69) for Gemini 2.5 Pro. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.

No. On the Vision Evals Object Detection benchmark at low effort, Gemini 4 Hydrogen leads with 81.0% against 33.7%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0051 per sample against $0.0094. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 6.8s per inference against 13.2s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.

Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for object detection and open prompts in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.