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PaLM 2

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

PaLM 2 1027.2 PaLM 2 · 95% interval 1018.0–1036.4 · 8,554 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

887.20 rating

Confidence interval: 850.29 – 924.11

355 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

994.16 rating

Confidence interval: 973.51 – 1,014.82

917 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

991.11 rating

Confidence interval: 973.83 – 1,008.40

1576 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,063.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,053.48 – 1,073.37

6912 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

830.04 rating

Confidence interval: 817.36 – 842.72

6230 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,004.83 rating

Confidence interval: 989.45 – 1,020.20

1605 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,035.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,018.81 – 1,051.64

1366 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

958.63 rating

Confidence interval: 934.57 – 982.68

755 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

992.15 rating

Confidence interval: 974.91 – 1,009.40

1480 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,005.61 rating

Confidence interval: 973.89 – 1,037.34

428 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,011.08 rating

Confidence interval: 992.98 – 1,029.17

1368 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,043.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,022.12 – 1,064.01

801 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

961.60 rating

Confidence interval: 924.62 – 998.59

303 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

999.58 rating

Confidence interval: 984.55 – 1,014.61

2077 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,006.75 rating

Confidence interval: 991.74 – 1,021.76

2155 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,009.91 rating

Confidence interval: 996.59 – 1,023.24

2536 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,009.45 rating

Confidence interval: 973.03 – 1,045.87

251 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,048.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,029.49 – 1,068.21

901 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

994.33 rating

Confidence interval: 974.81 – 1,013.85

1163 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

915.94 rating

Confidence interval: 898.71 – 933.17

1642 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

PaLM 2

1,027.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,018.01 – 1,036.41

8554 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
PaLM 2
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

PaLM 2

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
Proprietary