Model comparison

ERNIE 5.1 vs Llama 4 Maverick

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.1

Rank #87 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.6

Rank #276 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where ERNIE 5.1 leads 65.3 to 39.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 23.4% for ERNIE 5.1 and 8% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

ERNIE 5.1 and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
ERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
ProviderBaiduMeta
Noometry Index43.130.6
Released—2025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked1954

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Category by category

Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 43.4 (#78), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Coding14881302
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
WeirdML—24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
ALE-Bench—172.97

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
LMArena Search1227—

Reasoning ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 20.9 (#209), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
NYT Connections (extended)23.4%8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811281
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval—0.6%
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—132.2
ForecastBench—57.5

Math ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 37.5 (#96), Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Math14811299
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 41.2 (#103), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Expert14911259
GPQA Diamond—67%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1141
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 55.7 (#28), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14551269
LMArena Chinese15071277
LMArena French14861258
LMArena German14701291
LMArena Japanese14221207
LMArena Korean14281203
LMArena Russian14591286
LMArena Spanish14721293

Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 76.9 (#35), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14601267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#56), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query14621280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 65.3 (#50), Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkERNIE 5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14681287
LMArena Creative Writing14401266
LMArena Multi-Turn14711289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is ERNIE 5.1 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is ERNIE 5.1 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.4 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and Llama 4 Maverick share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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