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Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Palm 2

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.3

Rank #50 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 7 categories and Palm 2 in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 70.2 to 25.6.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index50.330.0
Released2026-02-17—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5710

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.3 (#67), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
LMArena Coding1504994
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1522—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#28), Palm 2: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#45), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts14841005
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA46.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.24—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 52.9 (#49), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
LMArena Math14621049
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.7 (#65), Palm 2: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
GPQA Diamond87.4%—
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—
LMArena Expert1500—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#68), Palm 2: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.4 (#41), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
LMArena Non-English1440916
LMArena Chinese1491887
LMArena French1465—
LMArena German1428—
LMArena Japanese1420—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1464—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.4 (#25), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
LMArena Instruction Following14751010

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#44), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
LMArena Longer Query14791010

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.2 (#22), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Palm 2
LMArena Text14581027
LMArena Creative Writing1435991
LMArena Multi-Turn1464994
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
EQ-Bench 41207—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Palm 2?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Palm 2 better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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