Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Palm 2

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 7 categories and Palm 2 in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-5 leads 69.5 to 30.8.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Palm 2 specifications
GPT-5Palm 2
ProviderOpenAIGoogle
Noometry Index50.930.0
Released2025-08-07—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6910

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Palm 2
LMArena Coding1436994
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Palm 2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Palm 2
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Palm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts14161005
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Palm 2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Palm 2
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
LMArena Expert1419—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Palm 2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Palm 2
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Palm 2
LMArena Non-English1397916
LMArena Chinese1422887
LMArena French1410—
LMArena German1416—
LMArena Japanese1409—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1406—
LMArena Spanish1399—

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Palm 2
LMArena Instruction Following13881010
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Palm 2
LMArena Longer Query13991010
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Palm 2
LMArena Text14061027
LMArena Creative Writing1365991
LMArena Multi-Turn1426994
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Palm 2?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Palm 2 better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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