# Palm 2 vs Qwen3 32B

> Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/palm-2-vs-qwen3-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Palm 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 32B leads 52.9 to 25.6.
- Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 39.2 |
| Rank | 298 | 172 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 994 | 1358 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Palm 2: —
- Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
- Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1005 | 1334 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.51 |

## Math

- Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
- Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1049 | 1399 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |

## Knowledge

- Palm 2: —
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |

## Multilingual

- Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
- Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 916 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 887 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |

## Instruction Following

- Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
- Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1010 | 1305 |

## Long Context

- Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
- Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1010 | 1327 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
- Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1027 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 991 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 994 | 1331 |

## FAQ

### Is Palm 2 better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Palm 2 or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Qwen3 32B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.