Model comparison

Palm 2 vs StarCoder 2 7B

Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#298); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 7B NVIDIA

37.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.8 to 29.0.
  • StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Palm 2 and StarCoder 2 7B specifications
Palm 2StarCoder 2 7B
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index30.037.0
Released—2024-02-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
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Results tracked107

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 7B leads

Palm 2: 29.0 (#311), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2StarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Coding994—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.7%
HumanEval+—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

Palm 2: 19.1 (#271), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2StarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts1005—
Epoch Capabilities Index—93.56
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Palm 2: 30.8 (#231), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2StarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Math1049—
GSM8K—32.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Palm 2: —, StarCoder 2 7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2StarCoder 2 7B
ARC (AI2) Challenge—38.7%
MMLU—38.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Palm 2: 20.9 (#295), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2StarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Non-English916—
LMArena Chinese887—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Palm 2: 51.0 (#296), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2StarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Instruction Following1010—

Long Context Not comparable

Palm 2: 30.8 (#285), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2StarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Longer Query1010—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Palm 2: 25.6 (#304), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2StarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Text1027—
LMArena Creative Writing991—
LMArena Multi-Turn994—

Frequently asked questions

Is Palm 2 better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#298); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Palm 2 or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and StarCoder 2 7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.

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