Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Palm 2
Claude 3 Opus and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Palm 2 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.4 to 25.7.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 29.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 46 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Palm 2: 28.5 (#306)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 995 |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Palm 2 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Palm 2: 18.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1005 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Palm 2 leads
Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Palm 2: 28.4 (#229)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1049 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Palm 2: 21.1 (#290)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1274 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Palm 2: 51.3 (#291)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1010 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Palm 2: 30.7 (#280)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Palm 2: 25.7 (#299)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 994 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Palm 2?
Claude 3 Opus and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Palm 2 better for coding?
Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.4 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Palm 2 share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.