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.

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.0

Rank #320 Confirmed

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 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Palm 2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.029.0
Released—2024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1015

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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)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding994—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Palm 2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Palm 2 leads

Palm 2: 19.1 (#271), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1005—
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)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1049—

Knowledge Not comparable

Palm 2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen2.5 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: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English916—
LMArena Chinese887—

Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Palm 2: 51.0 (#296), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1010—

Long Context Not comparable

Palm 2: 30.8 (#285), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1010—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Palm 2: 25.6 (#304), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1027—
LMArena Creative Writing991—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn994—

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.

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