Model comparison
ERNIE 5.1 vs Gemma 4 31B IT
ERNIE 5.1 and Gemma 4 31B IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.8 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 4 31B IT in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 27.2 to 21.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 23.4% for ERNIE 5.1 and 70.6% for Gemma 4 31B IT.
- Gemma 4 31B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Baidu | |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 43.5 |
| Released | — | 2026-04-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.09 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.34 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76), Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1488 | 1459 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1366 |
| SciCode | — | 43.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 925.5 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: —, Gemma 4 31B IT: —
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Search | 1227 | — |
Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads
ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211), Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 23.4% | 70.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | 1448 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.5% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 53% |
| DTBench | — | 82.7% |
| LMCA | — | 39.3% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 30.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 142.74 |
Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads
ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92), Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1481 | 1465 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
Knowledge ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102), Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1492 | 1465 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 10.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
Multimodal Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: —, Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1277 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1425 |
Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29), Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1454 | 1431 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1508 | 1476 |
| LMArena French | 1488 | 1435 |
| LMArena Russian | 1459 | 1460 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | 1444 |
| LMArena German | 1470 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1427 | — |
Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37), Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1460 | 1433 |
Long Context Too close to call
ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59), Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1462 | 1446 |
Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52), Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1468 | 1443 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1441 | 1415 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1471 | 1452 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1368 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1120 |
Frequently asked questions
Is ERNIE 5.1 better than Gemma 4 31B IT?
ERNIE 5.1 and Gemma 4 31B IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.8 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is ERNIE 5.1 or Gemma 4 31B IT 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 ERNIE 5.1 and Gemma 4 31B IT share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 31B IT has 35.