# Mistral Large vs Palm 2

> Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-vs-palm-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 5 categories and Palm 2 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Large leads 40.0 to 20.9.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Google |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 30.0 |
| Rank | 263 | 298 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $6 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
- Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | 994 |
| SciCode | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
- Palm 2: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)
- Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1005 |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| DTBench | 65.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 16.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |

## Math

- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
- Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1262 | 1049 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 50.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
- Palm 2: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | — |
| MMLU | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
- Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1325 | — |
| LMArena German | 1254 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
- Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1010 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
- Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1010 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
- Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | 994 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 69% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 985 | — |
| WildBench | 80.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 39.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large better than Palm 2?

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Large or Palm 2 better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.