Model comparison

Palm 2 vs Qwen1.5-72B

Palm 2 and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Palm 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Qwen1.5-72B leads 33.2 to 20.9.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Palm 2 and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Palm 2Qwen1.5-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.030.8
Released—2024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1022

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-72B leads

Palm 2: 29.0 (#311), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding9941165
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads

Palm 2: 19.1 (#271), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts10051148

Math Qwen1.5-72B leads

Palm 2: 30.8 (#231), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math10491164

Knowledge Not comparable

Palm 2: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
LMArena Expert—1136

Multilingual Qwen1.5-72B leads

Palm 2: 20.9 (#295), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English9161135
LMArena Chinese8871186
LMArena French—1159
LMArena German—1084
LMArena Japanese—1061
LMArena Korean—1050
LMArena Russian—1104
LMArena Spanish—1110

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-72B leads

Palm 2: 51.0 (#296), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following10101141

Long Context Qwen1.5-72B leads

Palm 2: 30.8 (#285), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query10101157

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-72B leads

Palm 2: 25.6 (#304), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text10271166
LMArena Creative Writing9911137
LMArena Multi-Turn9941160

Frequently asked questions

Is Palm 2 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Palm 2 and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Palm 2 or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-72B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.9 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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