Model comparison
Palm 2 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Palm 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 58.2 to 25.7.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Palm 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 42.5 |
| Released | — | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 28.5 (#306), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 995 | 1441 |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 18.2 (#270), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1005 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 28.4 (#229), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1049 | 1440 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Palm 2: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1416 |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 21.1 (#290), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 916 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 887 | 1461 |
| LMArena French | — | 1415 |
| LMArena German | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1436 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 51.3 (#291), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1010 | 1388 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 30.7 (#280), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1010 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 25.7 (#299), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1027 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 991 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 994 | 1415 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Palm 2 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Palm 2 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.