Model comparison

Llama 2-7B vs Palm 2

Llama 2-7B and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 3 categories and Palm 2 in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Palm 2 leads 19.1 to 15.7.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-7B and Palm 2 specifications
Llama 2-7BPalm 2
ProviderMetaGoogle
Noometry Index29.130.0
Released2023-07-18—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2910

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BPalm 2
LMArena Coding1002994

Reasoning Palm 2 leads

Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BPalm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts10091005
Chess Puzzles0%—
BIG-Bench Hard39.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index99.06—
HellaSwag77.2%—
LAMBADA73.3%—
PIQA78.8%—
WinoGrande69.2%—

Math Too close to call

Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BPalm 2
LMArena Math10421049
GSM8K16.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248), Palm 2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BPalm 2
LMArena Expert1036—
ARC (AI2) Challenge45.9%—
BoolQ77.9%—
MMLU45.8%—
OpenBookQA58.6%—
TriviaQA73.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Palm 2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BPalm 2
ScienceQA43.1%—

Multilingual Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BPalm 2
LMArena Non-English973916
LMArena Chinese973887
LMArena French970—
LMArena German978—
LMArena Russian995—
LMArena Spanish1007—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BPalm 2
LMArena Instruction Following10061010

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BPalm 2
LMArena Longer Query9991010

Writing & Preference Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BPalm 2
LMArena Text10531027
LMArena Creative Writing1033991
LMArena Multi-Turn1029994

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-7B better than Palm 2?

Llama 2-7B and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 2-7B or Palm 2 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.2 vs 29.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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