Model comparison
Palm 2 vs Qwen2-72B
Palm 2 and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Palm 2 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2-72B in 6 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2-72B leads 40.8 to 25.6.
- Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 30.0 |
| Released | — | 2024-06-07 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Palm 2: 29.0 (#311), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 994 | 1196 |
| WeirdML | — | 11.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 38.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Palm 2: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 1.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.9% |
Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads
Palm 2: 19.1 (#271), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1005 | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.28 |
Math Too close to call
Palm 2: 30.8 (#231), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1049 | 1235 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.1% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Palm 2: —, Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1171 |
| MMLU | — | 82.4% |
Multilingual Qwen2-72B leads
Palm 2: 20.9 (#295), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 916 | 1176 |
| LMArena Chinese | 887 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | — | 1170 |
| LMArena German | — | 1151 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1169 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1169 |
Instruction Following Qwen2-72B leads
Palm 2: 51.0 (#296), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1010 | 1181 |
Long Context Qwen2-72B leads
Palm 2: 30.8 (#285), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1010 | 1192 |
Writing & Preference Qwen2-72B leads
Palm 2: 25.6 (#304), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1027 | 1203 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 991 | 1181 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 994 | 1196 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Palm 2 better than Qwen2-72B?
Palm 2 and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Palm 2 or Qwen2-72B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (29.0 vs 29.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Qwen2-72B share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.