Model comparison

Palm 2 vs Qwen3.5 122B-A10B

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Palm 2 Google

29.4

Rank #296 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)

41.6

Rank #120 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Palm 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads 60.2 to 25.7.
  • Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Palm 2 and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B specifications
Palm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.441.6
Released—2026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$3.20
Results tracked1027

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Palm 2: 28.5 (#306), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.8 (#155)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Coding9951436
LMArena WebDev—1360
SciCode—35.6%

Reasoning Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Palm 2: 18.2 (#270), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 26.4 (#121)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Hard Prompts10051421
NYT Connections (extended)—51.7%
CritPt—0.9%
Thematic Generalization—51.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—84.3%
LMCA—32.2%

Math Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Palm 2: 28.4 (#229), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 36.4 (#114)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Math10491432

Knowledge Not comparable

Palm 2: —, Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.2 (#138)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.2%
LMArena Expert—1431

Multimodal Not comparable

Palm 2: —, Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.0 (#52)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Vision—1245

Multilingual Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Palm 2: 21.1 (#290), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 51.8 (#101)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Non-English9161400
LMArena Chinese8871462
LMArena French—1442
LMArena German—1425
LMArena Japanese—1364
LMArena Korean—1353
LMArena Russian—1400
LMArena Spanish—1423

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Palm 2: 51.3 (#291), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 74.0 (#109)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Instruction Following10101399

Long Context Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Palm 2: 30.7 (#280), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 43.0 (#105)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Longer Query10101410

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Palm 2: 25.7 (#299), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 60.2 (#98)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Text10271417
LMArena Creative Writing9911369
LMArena Multi-Turn9941416

Frequently asked questions

Is Palm 2 better than Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Palm 2 or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.8 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has 27.

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