Model comparison
ERNIE 5.1 vs Mistral 7B
ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where ERNIE 5.1 leads 41.9 to 7.4.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Baidu | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 23.0 |
| Released | — | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1488 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: —, Mistral 7B: —
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Search | 1227 | — |
Reasoning ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | 1067 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 23.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1481 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1492 | 1036 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1454 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1508 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1488 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1470 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1459 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1427 | — |
Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1460 | 1060 |
Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1462 | 1060 |
Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1468 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1441 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1471 | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is ERNIE 5.1 better than Mistral 7B?
ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is ERNIE 5.1 or Mistral 7B better for coding?
ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and Mistral 7B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.