# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Palm 2

> Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#296); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-palm-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 28.5.
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 29.4 |
| Rank | — | 296 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141)
- Palm 2: 28.5 (#306)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 995 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Palm 2: 18.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1005 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.78 | — |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Palm 2: 28.4 (#229)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1049 |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Palm 2: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | — |
| MMLU | 78.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Palm 2: 21.1 (#290)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 887 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Palm 2: 51.3 (#291)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1010 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Palm 2: 30.7 (#280)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1010 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Palm 2: 25.7 (#299)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 994 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Palm 2?

Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#296); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Palm 2 better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Palm 2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.