Model comparison
ERNIE 5.1 vs Mistral Large
ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Large 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 40.7.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Baidu | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 31.9 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1488 | 1277 |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
| LMArena Search | 1227 | — |
Reasoning ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 23.4% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
Math ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1481 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1492 | 1232 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |
Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1454 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1508 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1488 | 1325 |
| LMArena German | 1470 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | 1427 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1459 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | 1268 |
Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1460 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |
Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1462 | 1261 |
Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1468 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1441 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1471 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is ERNIE 5.1 better than Mistral Large?
ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is ERNIE 5.1 or Mistral Large better for coding?
ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and Mistral Large share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.