Model comparison

ERNIE 5.1 vs GPT-4o

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.8

Rank #83 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-4o in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where ERNIE 5.1 leads 40.3 to 10.6.

Side by side

ERNIE 5.1 and GPT-4o specifications
ERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
ProviderBaiduOpenAI
Noometry Index43.828.6
Released—2024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked1972

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Category by category

Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76), GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Coding14881297
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
GSO—0%
WeirdML—25.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—51.1%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.1%
CadEval—26%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Search12271006
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
BALROG—32.3%
METR Time Horizons—40.8%

Reasoning ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Hard Prompts14811281
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—17.8%
NYT Connections (extended)23.4%—
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—13%
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
DTBench—64.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LMCA—16.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.97
ForecastBench—57.7
LiveBench—55.3%

Math ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Math14811285
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.4%
Omni-MATH—29.3%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
MATH Level 5—53.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Expert14921250
GPQA Diamond—49.2%
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
SimpleQA Verified—26%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Confabulations—15.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52%
MMLU—88.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Vision—1137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29), GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Non-English14541283
LMArena Chinese15081277
LMArena French14881304
LMArena German14701282
LMArena Japanese14221257
LMArena Korean14271234
LMArena Russian14591286
LMArena Spanish14731292

Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37), GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Instruction Following14601278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%
IFEval—81.7%

Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query14621289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52), GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-4o
LMArena Text14681300
LMArena Creative Writing14411292
LMArena Multi-Turn14711302
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
WildBench—82.8%
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is ERNIE 5.1 better than GPT-4o?

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is ERNIE 5.1 or GPT-4o better for coding?

ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and GPT-4o share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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