Model comparison
Palm 2 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Palm 2 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.4 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 25.7.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 28.6 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 28.5 (#306), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 995 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Palm 2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Palm 2 leads
Palm 2: 18.2 (#270), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1005 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.44 |
Math Palm 2 leads
Palm 2: 28.4 (#229), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1049 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Palm 2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Palm 2: 21.1 (#290), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 916 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 887 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 51.3 (#291), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1010 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Palm 2: 30.7 (#280), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1010 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Palm 2: 25.7 (#299), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1027 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 991 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 994 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Palm 2 better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Palm 2 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.4 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Palm 2 or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.