Model comparison
Llama 3.1-70B vs Palm 2
Llama 3.1-70B 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.
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- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1-70B scores higher in 6 categories and Palm 2 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Llama 3.1-70B leads 38.8 to 20.9.
- Llama 3.1-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2024-07-23 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.40 | — |
| Results tracked | 35 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1260 | 994 |
| WeirdML | 9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 6.9% | — |
| BALROG | 27.9% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1241 | 1005 |
| DTBench | 60% | — |
| LMCA | 14.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.92 | — |
Math Palm 2 leads
Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1049 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 3.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 21% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 44.2% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 65.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 42.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1209 | — |
| MMLU | 80.1% | — |
Multilingual Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1219 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1215 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1261 | — |
| LMArena German | 1222 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1132 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1140 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1253 | — |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1231 | 1010 |
| IFEval | 82.1% | — |
Long Context Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1241 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1261 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1232 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1256 | 994 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 784 | — |
| WildBench | 75.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1-70B better than Palm 2?
Llama 3.1-70B 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 Llama 3.1-70B or Palm 2 better for coding?
Llama 3.1-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.3 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1-70B and Palm 2 share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.