# ERNIE 5.1 vs Mistral Medium

> ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/ernie-5-1-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral Medium in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where ERNIE 5.1 leads 41.9 to 25.0.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Baidu | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 83 | 218 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76)
- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1488 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- ERNIE 5.1: —
- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
| LMArena Search | 1227 | — |

## Reasoning

- ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211)
- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 23.4% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |

## Math

- ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92)
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1481 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102)
- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1492 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |

## Multimodal

- ERNIE 5.1: —
- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |

## Multilingual

- ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29)
- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1454 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1508 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1488 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1470 | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1427 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1459 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37)
- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1460 | 1398 |

## Long Context

- ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59)
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1462 | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52)
- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1468 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1441 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1471 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |

## FAQ

### Is ERNIE 5.1 better than Mistral Medium?

ERNIE 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is ERNIE 5.1 or Mistral Medium better for coding?

ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and Mistral Medium share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.