Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs Palm 2
Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
GoogleSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 4 categories and Palm 2 in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Palm 2 leads 30.8 to 8.1.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 8K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Palm 2 leads
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 994 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Reasoning Palm 2 leads
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1005 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |
Math Palm 2 leads
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1049 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |
Multilingual Mistral 7B leads
Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1037 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |
Instruction Following Mistral 7B leads
Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1010 |
Long Context Mistral 7B leads
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Mistral 7B leads
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 994 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than Palm 2?
Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral 7B or Palm 2 better for coding?
Palm 2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.0 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Palm 2 share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.