# Palm 2 vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#298); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/palm-2-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | — |
| Rank | 298 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 994 | — |

## Reasoning

- Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1005 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.14 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |

## Math

- Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1049 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Palm 2: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |

## Multilingual

- Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 916 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 887 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1010 | — |

## Long Context

- Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1010 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1027 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 991 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 994 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Palm 2 better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#298); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.