Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs ERNIE 5.1

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.1

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and ERNIE 5.1 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where ERNIE 5.1 leads 37.5 to 18.0.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ERNIE 5.1 specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
ProviderAnthropicBaidu
Noometry Index34.443.1
Released2024-06-20—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6019

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Category by category

Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), ERNIE 5.1: 43.4 (#78)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
LMArena Coding13431488
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), ERNIE 5.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
LMArena Search—1227
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), ERNIE 5.1: 20.9 (#209)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
LMArena Hard Prompts13051481
SimpleBench41.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—23.4%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), ERNIE 5.1: 37.5 (#96)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
LMArena Math13061481
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), ERNIE 5.1: 41.2 (#103)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
LMArena Expert12641491
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), ERNIE 5.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), ERNIE 5.1: 55.7 (#28)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
LMArena Non-English12831455
LMArena Chinese12711507
LMArena French13041486
LMArena German12971470
LMArena Japanese12341422
LMArena Korean12001428
LMArena Russian13051459
LMArena Spanish12891472

Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), ERNIE 5.1: 76.9 (#35)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
LMArena Instruction Following12971460
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#56)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
LMArena Longer Query13111462

Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), ERNIE 5.1: 65.3 (#50)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetERNIE 5.1
LMArena Text12981468
LMArena Creative Writing12921440
LMArena Multi-Turn13261471
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than ERNIE 5.1?

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or ERNIE 5.1 better for coding?

ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.4 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ERNIE 5.1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and ERNIE 5.1 has 19.

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