Model comparison
Palm 2 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 25.6.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 29.0 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 29.0 (#311), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 994 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Palm 2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Palm 2 leads
Palm 2: 19.1 (#271), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1005 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.51 |
Math Palm 2 leads
Palm 2: 30.8 (#231), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1049 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Palm 2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Palm 2: 20.9 (#295), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 916 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 887 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 51.0 (#296), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1010 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Palm 2: 30.8 (#285), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1010 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 25.6 (#304), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1027 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 991 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 994 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Palm 2 better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Palm 2 or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.