Model comparison
Llama 3-70B vs Palm 2
Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
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GoogleSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 5 categories and Palm 2 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Palm 2 leads 30.8 to 12.8.
- Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2024-04-18 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 31 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3-70B leads
Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1206 | 994 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.5% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 5% | — |
Reasoning Palm 2 leads
Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1195 | 1005 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 35.1% | — |
| DTBench | 54.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.93 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| WinoGrande | 83.5% | — |
Math Palm 2 leads
Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1218 | 1049 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 22.6% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1149 | — |
| MMLU | 79.3% | — |
Multilingual Llama 3-70B leads
Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1142 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1114 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1232 | — |
| LMArena German | 1169 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1017 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1017 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1159 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1241 | — |
Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads
Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1194 | 1010 |
Long Context Llama 3-70B leads
Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1174 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads
Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1221 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1210 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1223 | 994 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3-70B better than Palm 2?
Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 3-70B or Palm 2 better for coding?
Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Palm 2 share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.