Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Palm 2

Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Palm 2 in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Palm 2 leads 30.8 to 10.7.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Palm 2 specifications
Claude 3 SonnetPalm 2
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.030.0
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3010

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPalm 2
LMArena Coding1223994
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPalm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts11971005
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Palm 2 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPalm 2
LMArena Math12131049
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Palm 2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPalm 2
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
LMArena Expert1173—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Palm 2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPalm 2
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPalm 2
LMArena Non-English1205916
LMArena Chinese1189887
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPalm 2
LMArena Instruction Following11991010

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPalm 2
LMArena Longer Query12111010

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPalm 2
LMArena Text12181027
LMArena Creative Writing1186991
LMArena Multi-Turn1227994

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Palm 2?

Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Palm 2 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.6 vs 29.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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