Model comparison
ERNIE 5.1 vs Qwen3.5 Plus
ERNIE 5.1 and Qwen3.5 Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.8 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 32.8 to 21.9.
Side by side
| ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Baidu | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 42.9 |
| Released | — | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1488 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 621.92 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Search | 1227 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads
ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 23.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LMCA | — | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.78 |
Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads
ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1481 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads
ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1492 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1454 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1508 | — |
| LMArena French | 1488 | — |
| LMArena German | 1470 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1460 | — |
Long Context ERNIE 5.1 leads
ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1462 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1468 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1441 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1471 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is ERNIE 5.1 better than Qwen3.5 Plus?
ERNIE 5.1 and Qwen3.5 Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.8 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and Qwen3.5 Plus share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.