Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Palm 2

Claude 3 Opus and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Palm 2 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 25.6.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Palm 2 specifications
Claude 3 OpusPalm 2
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.530.0
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4610

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
LMArena Coding1264994
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Palm 2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Palm 2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts12451005
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Palm 2 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
LMArena Math12731049
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Palm 2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Palm 2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
LMArena Non-English1258916
LMArena Chinese1248887
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
LMArena Instruction Following12481010
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
LMArena Longer Query12591010

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPalm 2
LMArena Text12621027
LMArena Creative Writing1235991
LMArena Multi-Turn1275994
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Palm 2?

Claude 3 Opus and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Palm 2 better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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