Noometry

Model comparison

ERNIE 5.1 vs GPT-4.1 mini

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.8

Rank #83 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where ERNIE 5.1 leads 65.1 to 48.6.

Side by side

ERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
ProviderBaiduOpenAI
Noometry Index43.833.6
Released—2025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked1947

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Category by category

Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Coding14881367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
WeirdML—37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
CadEval—16%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%
LMArena Search1227—

Reasoning ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Hard Prompts14811349
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
NYT Connections (extended)23.4%—
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LMCA—21.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.01

Math ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Math14811343
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—44.7%
Omni-MATH—49.1%
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%

Knowledge ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Expert14921338
GPQA Diamond—65.8%
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision—1181

Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English14541318
LMArena Chinese15081329
LMArena French14881358
LMArena German14701351
LMArena Japanese14221290
LMArena Korean14271298
LMArena Russian14591324
LMArena Spanish14731319

Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Instruction Following14601333
IFEval—90.4%

Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query14621344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text14681340
LMArena Creative Writing14411300
LMArena Multi-Turn14711354
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is ERNIE 5.1 better than GPT-4.1 mini?

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is ERNIE 5.1 or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and GPT-4.1 mini share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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