Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs Palm 2
Gemma 2B and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and Palm 2 in 5 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 23 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 994 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1005 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |
Math Too close to call
Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1049 |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 2B leads
Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 887 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | — |
Instruction Following Palm 2 leads
Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1010 |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Palm 2 leads
Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 994 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than Palm 2?
Gemma 2B and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 2B or Palm 2 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (29.4 vs 29.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Palm 2 share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.