Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3 vs ERNIE 5.1

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek

39.5

Rank #166 Confirmed

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.8

Rank #83 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 0 categories and ERNIE 5.1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where ERNIE 5.1 leads 44.7 to 34.0.
  • DeepSeek-V3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3 and ERNIE 5.1 specifications
DeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
ProviderDeepSeekBaidu
Noometry Index39.543.8
Released2024-12-26—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window164K—
Max output164K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.24—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked6019

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Category by category

Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Coding13681488
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
SciCode35.8%—
WeirdML36.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct50%—
LiveBench Coding70.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete62.2%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: —, ERNIE 5.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Search—1227
METR Time Horizons49.6%—

Reasoning ERNIE 5.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Hard Prompts13651481
SimpleBench27.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—23.4%
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning65.8%—
DTBench64.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA15.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard87.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.94—
ForecastBench59.1—
HellaSwag88.9%—
LiveBench66.9%—
PIQA84.7%—
WinoGrande85.2%—

Math ERNIE 5.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Math13731481
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%—
Omni-MATH40.3%—
LiveBench Math73.5%—
MATH Level 575.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge ERNIE 5.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Expert13511492
GPQA Diamond67.6%—
MMLU-Pro72.3%—
Confabulations26.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)53.8%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge95.3%—
MMLU87.2%—
TriviaQA82.9%—

Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Non-English13581454
LMArena Chinese13911508
LMArena French13851488
LMArena German13741470
LMArena Japanese13331422
LMArena Korean13191427
LMArena Russian13731459
LMArena Spanish13581473

Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Instruction Following13451460
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%—
IFEval83.2%—

Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Longer Query13521462
Fiction.LiveBench50%—

Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3ERNIE 5.1
LMArena Text13751468
LMArena Creative Writing13641441
LMArena Multi-Turn13891471
Short-Story Creative Writing77%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1472—
WildBench83%—
LiveBench Language49.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3 better than ERNIE 5.1?

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-V3 or ERNIE 5.1 better for coding?

ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 42.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and ERNIE 5.1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and ERNIE 5.1 has 19.

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