Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Palm 2

GPT-4o and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.5 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.5

Rank #316 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

29.4

Rank #296 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 4 categories and Palm 2 in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.8 to 25.7.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Palm 2 specifications
GPT-4oPalm 2
ProviderOpenAIGoogle
Noometry Index28.529.4
Released2024-05-13—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7210

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Category by category

Coding Palm 2 leads

GPT-4o: 25.1 (#323), Palm 2: 28.5 (#306)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
LMArena Coding1297995
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 20.8 (#133), Palm 2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Palm 2 leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#338), Palm 2: 18.2 (#270)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts12811005
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Palm 2 leads

GPT-4o: 10.2 (#303), Palm 2: 28.4 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
LMArena Math12851049
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#235), Palm 2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
LMArena Expert1250—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 33.9 (#85), Palm 2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.4 (#181), Palm 2: 21.1 (#290)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
LMArena Non-English1283916
LMArena Chinese1277887
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.8 (#202), Palm 2: 51.3 (#291)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
LMArena Instruction Following12781010
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#174), Palm 2: 30.7 (#280)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
LMArena Longer Query12891010
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.8 (#160), Palm 2: 25.7 (#299)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPalm 2
LMArena Text13001027
LMArena Creative Writing1291991
LMArena Multi-Turn1302994
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Palm 2?

GPT-4o and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.5 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4o or Palm 2 better for coding?

Palm 2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.5 versus 25.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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