Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs Palm 2
Codellama 34b Instruct and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 6 categories and Palm 2 in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 25.8 to 20.9.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.0 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 994 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1005 |
Math Too close to call
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1049 |
Multilingual Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 887 |
Instruction Following Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1010 |
Long Context Too close to call
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 994 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Palm 2?
Codellama 34b Instruct and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Palm 2 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (28.5 vs 29.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Palm 2 share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.