Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs ERNIE 5.1

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #39 Confirmed

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.1

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and ERNIE 5.1 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 42.5 to 20.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 52.5% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 23.4% for ERNIE 5.1.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and ERNIE 5.1 specifications
Claude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
ProviderAnthropicBaidu
Noometry Index50.543.1
Released2025-11-01—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6919

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 55.4 (#21), ERNIE 5.1: 43.4 (#78)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Coding15041488
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1493—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.2 (#11), ERNIE 5.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Search11801227
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.5 (#43), ERNIE 5.1: 20.9 (#209)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%23.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14761481
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.1—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.5 (#85), ERNIE 5.1: 37.5 (#96)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Math14631481
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.4 (#38), ERNIE 5.1: 41.2 (#103)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Expert14881491
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.1 (#99), ERNIE 5.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.5 (#45), ERNIE 5.1: 55.7 (#28)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Non-English14381455
LMArena Chinese14701507
LMArena French14711486
LMArena German14491470
LMArena Japanese14151422
LMArena Korean14241428
LMArena Russian14481459
LMArena Spanish14551472

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.7 (#20), ERNIE 5.1: 76.9 (#35)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Instruction Following14781460

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.4 (#21), ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#56)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Longer Query14801462
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.2 (#28), ERNIE 5.1: 65.3 (#50)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Text14511468
LMArena Creative Writing14451440
LMArena Multi-Turn14661471
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than ERNIE 5.1?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or ERNIE 5.1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.4 versus 43.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and ERNIE 5.1 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and ERNIE 5.1 has 19.

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