Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs ERNIE 5.1

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.8

Rank #83 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and ERNIE 5.1 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 21.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 92.1% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 23.4% for ERNIE 5.1.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and ERNIE 5.1 specifications
Claude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
ProviderAnthropicBaidu
Noometry Index58.243.8
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6819

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Coding15361488
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), ERNIE 5.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Search12531227
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%23.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts15271481
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Expert15461492
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), ERNIE 5.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Non-English14891454
LMArena Chinese15511508
LMArena French15131488
LMArena German15021470
LMArena Japanese14841422
LMArena Korean14641427
LMArena Russian14971459
LMArena Spanish15101473

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Instruction Following15231460

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Longer Query15201462
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Text15031468
LMArena Creative Writing15051441
LMArena Multi-Turn15131471
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than ERNIE 5.1?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or ERNIE 5.1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and ERNIE 5.1 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and ERNIE 5.1 has 19.

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