Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs ERNIE 5.1

Claude Opus 4 and ERNIE 5.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.9 vs 43.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.1

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 5 categories and ERNIE 5.1 in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where ERNIE 5.1 leads 55.7 to 49.0.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and ERNIE 5.1 specifications
Claude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
ProviderAnthropicBaidu
Noometry Index42.943.1
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5619

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), ERNIE 5.1: 43.4 (#78)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Coding14421488
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), ERNIE 5.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Search11271227
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), ERNIE 5.1: 20.9 (#209)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Hard Prompts13991481
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—23.4%
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), ERNIE 5.1: 37.5 (#96)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Math13911481
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), ERNIE 5.1: 41.2 (#103)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Expert13841491
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), ERNIE 5.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), ERNIE 5.1: 55.7 (#28)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Non-English13621455
LMArena Chinese13861507
LMArena French13701486
LMArena German13911470
LMArena Japanese13321422
LMArena Korean13181428
LMArena Russian13921459
LMArena Spanish13881472

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), ERNIE 5.1: 76.9 (#35)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Instruction Following14061460
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#56)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Longer Query14221462
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), ERNIE 5.1: 65.3 (#50)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Text13771468
LMArena Creative Writing13861440
LMArena Multi-Turn13961471
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than ERNIE 5.1?

Claude Opus 4 and ERNIE 5.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.9 vs 43.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude Opus 4 or ERNIE 5.1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 43.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and ERNIE 5.1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and ERNIE 5.1 has 19.

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