Model comparison

o3 vs Palm 2

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. o3 scores higher in 7 categories and Palm 2 in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o3 leads 63.5 to 25.6.

Side by side

o3 and Palm 2 specifications
o3Palm 2
ProviderOpenAIGoogle
Noometry Index47.530.0
Released2025-04-16—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output100K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$8—
Results tracked6310

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Category by category

Coding o3 leads

o3: 46.8 (#64), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko3Palm 2
LMArena Coding1408994
SWE-bench Verified62.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)58.4%—
Aider Polyglot81.3%—
GSO8.8%—
WeirdML52.4%—
CadEval74%—
ALE-Bench933.55—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o3: 34.5 (#44), Palm 2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko3Palm 2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval30.8%—
DeepResearch Bench45.2%—
OSWorld23%—
LMArena Search1144—
METR Time Horizons65.4%—

Reasoning o3 leads

o3: 32.0 (#78), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko3Palm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts14021005
ARC-AGI-26.5%—
SimpleBench53.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%—
ARC-AGI-160.8%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles38%—
EnigmaEval13.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles29%—
DTBench84.8%—
LMCA39.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.86—
ForecastBench62.5—

Math o3 leads

o3: 50.2 (#58), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

Knowledge Not comparable

o3: 54.6 (#52), Palm 2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko3Palm 2
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam20.3%—
SimpleQA Verified49.4%—
MMLU-Pro85.9%—
Confabulations14.4%—
GPQA (HELM)75.3%—
LMArena Expert1402—

Multimodal Not comparable

o3: 41.4 (#36), Palm 2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko3Palm 2
LMArena Vision1214—
GeoBench74%—
VPCT52%—

Multilingual o3 leads

o3: 51.7 (#105), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko3Palm 2
LMArena Non-English1401916
LMArena Chinese1437887
LMArena French1430—
LMArena German1420—
LMArena Japanese1403—
LMArena Korean1370—
LMArena Russian1406—
LMArena Spanish1395—

Instruction Following o3 leads

o3: 72.8 (#127), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko3Palm 2
LMArena Instruction Following13681010
IFEval86.9%—

Long Context o3 leads

o3: 53.3 (#6), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko3Palm 2
LMArena Longer Query13721010
Fiction.LiveBench88.9%—
CL-bench17.8%—

Writing & Preference o3 leads

o3: 63.5 (#64), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko3Palm 2
LMArena Text14101027
LMArena Creative Writing1359991
LMArena Multi-Turn1405994
Short-Story Creative Writing83.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1676—
WildBench86.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o3 better than Palm 2?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is o3 or Palm 2 better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o3 and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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