# Palm 2 vs Phi-2

> Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#296); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Palm 2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | — |
| Rank | 296 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Palm 2: 28.5 (#306)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 995 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 45.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |

## Reasoning

- Palm 2: 18.2 (#270)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1005 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 42.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 59.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 107.62 |
| HellaSwag | — | 53.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 54.7% |

## Math

- Palm 2: 28.4 (#229)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1049 | — |

## Knowledge

- Palm 2: —
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 75.9% |
| MMLU | — | 58.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 73.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 45.2% |

## Multilingual

- Palm 2: 21.1 (#290)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 916 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 887 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Palm 2: 51.3 (#291)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1010 | — |

## Long Context

- Palm 2: 30.7 (#280)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1010 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Palm 2: 25.7 (#299)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1027 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 991 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 994 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Palm 2 better than Phi-2?

Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#296); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Phi-2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.