Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs Palm 2

GPT-4 Turbo and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo 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 GPT-4 Turbo leads 47.7 to 25.6.

Side by side

GPT-4 Turbo and Palm 2 specifications
GPT-4 TurboPalm 2
ProviderOpenAIGoogle
Noometry Index30.530.0
Released2023-11-06—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$30—
Results tracked3610

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
LMArena Coding1268994
WeirdML18%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.2%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: —, Palm 2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
METR Time Horizons36.7%—

Reasoning Palm 2 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts12511005
SimpleBench25.1%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LMCA9.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.25—
ForecastBench59.4—

Math Palm 2 leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
LMArena Math12721049
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.7%—
MATH Level 546.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268), Palm 2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
GPQA Diamond46.6%—
Confabulations28.4%—
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU81.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110), Palm 2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
LMArena Vision1090—

Multilingual GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
LMArena Non-English1245916
LMArena Chinese1242887
LMArena French1276—
LMArena German1259—
LMArena Japanese1194—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1259—
LMArena Spanish1260—

Instruction Following GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
LMArena Instruction Following12491010

Long Context GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
LMArena Longer Query12541010

Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPalm 2
LMArena Text12721027
LMArena Creative Writing1269991
LMArena Multi-Turn1267994

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Palm 2?

GPT-4 Turbo and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4 Turbo or Palm 2 better for coding?

GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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