Model comparison

Llama 4 Maverick vs Palm 2

Llama 4 Maverick and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 4 categories and Palm 2 in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 42.2 to 20.9.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 4 Maverick and Palm 2 specifications
Llama 4 MaverickPalm 2
ProviderMetaGoogle
Noometry Index30.930.0
Released2025-04-05—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.19—
Output $ / M tokens$0.65—
Results tracked5410

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Category by category

Coding Palm 2 leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
LMArena Coding1302994
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21%—
Aider Polyglot15.6%—
SciCode33.1%—
WeirdML24.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct49.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.4%—
ALE-Bench172.97—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91), Palm 2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.3%—

Reasoning Palm 2 leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts12811005
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench27.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark55.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)8%—
ARC-AGI-14.4%—
CritPt0%—
EnigmaEval0.6%—
DTBench61.9%—
LMCA15.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index132.2—
ForecastBench57.5—

Math Palm 2 leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
LMArena Math12991049
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202520.6%—
Omni-MATH42.2%—
MATH Level 573%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204), Palm 2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
GPQA Diamond67%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.7%—
MMLU-Pro81%—
Confabulations22.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—
LMArena Expert1259—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105), Palm 2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
LMArena Vision1142—
GeoBench52%—
SpatialViz-Bench31.8%—

Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
LMArena Non-English1269916
LMArena Chinese1277887
LMArena French1259—
LMArena German1291—
LMArena Japanese1207—
LMArena Korean1203—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1293—

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
LMArena Instruction Following12671010
IFEval90.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
LMArena Longer Query12801010
Fiction.LiveBench46.2%—

Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickPalm 2
LMArena Text12871027
LMArena Creative Writing1267991
LMArena Multi-Turn1289994
Short-Story Creative Writing62%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing860—
WildBench80%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Palm 2?

Llama 4 Maverick and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 4 Maverick or Palm 2 better for coding?

Palm 2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.0 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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