Model comparison

ERNIE 5.1 vs GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.4 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.1

Rank #87 Confirmed

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

64.4

Rank #6 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5.6 Sol in 7 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 74.7 to 20.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 23.4% for ERNIE 5.1 and 93.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol.

Side by side

ERNIE 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol specifications
ERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
ProviderBaiduOpenAI
Noometry Index43.164.4
Released—2026-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$4
Output $ / M tokens—$20
Results tracked1964

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

ERNIE 5.1: 43.4 (#78), GPT-5.6 Sol: 61.1 (#7)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Coding14881493
DeepSWE—72.7%
FrontierCode—47.5%
CursorBench—41.7%
LMArena WebDev—1619
FrontierSWE—32.2%
SciCode—57.1%
WeirdML—89.4%
MirrorCode—20%
ALE-Bench—2,177

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.2 (#7)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Search12271257
APEX-Agents—51.4%
OSWorld 2.0—27.3%
τ²-bench Banking—46.9%
PostTrainBench—36.2%
BALROG—60%
GBAEval—52.6%
GDP.pdf—30.7%
Vending-Bench 2—9,619

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

ERNIE 5.1: 20.9 (#209), GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.7 (#6)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
NYT Connections (extended)23.4%93.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811481
ARC-AGI-2—92.5%
SimpleBench—71.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67%
ARC-AGI-1—97.5%
CritPt—32.3%
Chess Puzzles—64%
EnigmaEval—37.1%
EBR-Bench—44.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—58%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—59.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—93.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—161.99

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

ERNIE 5.1: 37.5 (#96), GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.5 (#7)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Math14811472
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—82.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—83%
FrontierMath Erdős—0%

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

ERNIE 5.1: 41.2 (#103), GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Expert14911517
GPQA Diamond—93.5%
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.9 (#8)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Vision—1281
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
Furniture Assembly—56.7%
LMArena Document—1483

Multilingual Too close to call

ERNIE 5.1: 55.7 (#28), GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.4 (#32)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Non-English14551450
LMArena Chinese15071523
LMArena French14861475
LMArena German14701476
LMArena Japanese14221475
LMArena Korean14281434
LMArena Russian14591466
LMArena Spanish14721449

Instruction Following Too close to call

ERNIE 5.1: 76.9 (#35), GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.8 (#16)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following14601480

Long Context Too close to call

ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#56), GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.3 (#42)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query14621479

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

ERNIE 5.1: 65.3 (#50), GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.5 (#12)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Text14681456
LMArena Creative Writing14401450
LMArena Multi-Turn14711456
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1972
EQ-Bench 4—1250

Frequently asked questions

Is ERNIE 5.1 better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.4 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is ERNIE 5.1 or GPT-5.6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 61.1 versus 43.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Sol has 64.

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