Model comparison
Mistral vs Palm 2
Mistral and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
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- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 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 Mistral leads 32.8 to 20.9.
Side by side
| Mistral | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.0 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral leads
Mistral: 33.8 (#250), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | 994 |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Mistral: 22.2 (#200), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | 1005 |
Math Palm 2 leads
Mistral: 22.3 (#278), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1180 | 1049 |
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral: 16.6 (#288), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | — |
Multilingual Mistral leads
Mistral: 32.8 (#254), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1180 | — |
| LMArena German | 1155 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | — |
Instruction Following Mistral leads
Mistral: 52.6 (#288), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | 1010 |
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |
Long Context Mistral leads
Mistral: 35.0 (#245), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Mistral leads
Mistral: 37.0 (#260), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | 994 |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral better than Palm 2?
Mistral and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral or Palm 2 better for coding?
Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral and Palm 2 share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.