Model comparison
ERNIE 5.1 vs Llama 4 Scout
ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Baidu
MetaSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 4 Scout 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 37.0.
- Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Baidu | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 27.7 |
| Released | — | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1488 | 1286 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9.1% |
| SciCode | — | 17% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 43.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: —, Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.1% |
| LMArena Search | 1227 | — |
Reasoning ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | 1266 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 23.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 0.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 57.9% |
| LMCA | — | 12% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.64 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
Math ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1481 | 1287 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 37.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 62.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
Knowledge ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1492 | 1235 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 50.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: —, Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1118 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 34.2% |
Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1454 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1508 | 1255 |
| LMArena French | 1488 | 1282 |
| LMArena German | 1470 | 1272 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | 1427 | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | 1459 | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | 1278 |
Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1460 | 1248 |
| IFEval | — | 81.8% |
Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1462 | 1265 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 36% |
Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1468 | 1279 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1441 | 1249 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1471 | 1280 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 783 |
| WildBench | — | 78% |
Frequently asked questions
Is ERNIE 5.1 better than Llama 4 Scout?
ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is ERNIE 5.1 or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?
ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and Llama 4 Scout share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.