Model comparison

Codestral vs Palm 2

Codestral and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Codestral Mistral AI

30.6

Rank #290 Reported

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Side by side

Codestral and Palm 2 specifications
CodestralPalm 2
ProviderMistral AIGoogle
Noometry Index30.630.0
Released2024-05-29—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked710

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Category by category

Coding Palm 2 leads

Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPalm 2
Aider Polyglot11.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct41.8%—
LMArena Coding—994
BigCodeBench Complete52.5%—
ALE-Bench137.78—
HumanEval+73.8%—
MBPP+61.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPalm 2
Kagi LLM Benchmark32.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1005

Math Not comparable

Codestral: —, Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPalm 2
LMArena Math—1049

Multilingual Not comparable

Codestral: —, Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPalm 2
LMArena Non-English—916
LMArena Chinese—887

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codestral: —, Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPalm 2
LMArena Instruction Following—1010

Long Context Not comparable

Codestral: —, Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPalm 2
LMArena Longer Query—1010

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codestral: —, Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPalm 2
LMArena Text—1027
LMArena Creative Writing—991
LMArena Multi-Turn—994

Frequently asked questions

Is Codestral better than Palm 2?

Codestral and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Codestral or Palm 2 better for coding?

Palm 2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.0 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codestral and Palm 2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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