Noometry

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ERNIE 5.1 vs MiniMax-M3

ERNIE 5.1 and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.8 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

ERNIE 5.1 Baidu

43.8

Rank #83 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3 MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. ERNIE 5.1 scores higher in 6 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 41.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 23.4% for ERNIE 5.1 and 65.1% for MiniMax-M3.
  • MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

ERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
ProviderBaiduMiniMax
Noometry Index43.843.8
Released—2026-06-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—512K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
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Category by category

Coding ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 44.0 (#76), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
LMArena Coding14881469
FrontierCode—14.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
SciCode—47.1%
ALE-Bench—640.02

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents—37.7%
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
GBAEval—0.9%
LMArena Search1227—
Vending-Bench 2—2,158

Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 21.9 (#211), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
NYT Connections (extended)23.4%65.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811447
SimpleBench—45.8%
CritPt—3.7%
Chess Puzzles—14%
Mystery Game Puzzles—8%
DTBench—78.9%
LMCA—33.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—55%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.95
ForecastBench—61.4

Math Too close to call

ERNIE 5.1: 40.3 (#92), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
LMArena Math14811429
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—71.1%
ProofBench—18%

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 41.9 (#102), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
LMArena Expert14921461
GPQA Diamond—90.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

ERNIE 5.1: —, MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision—1253
LMArena Document—1435

Multilingual ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 55.5 (#29), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English14541420
LMArena Chinese15081463
LMArena French14881447
LMArena German14701426
LMArena Japanese14221381
LMArena Korean14271372
LMArena Russian14591428
LMArena Spanish14731432

Instruction Following ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 76.7 (#37), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following14601433

Long Context Too close to call

ERNIE 5.1: 44.7 (#59), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query14621445

Writing & Preference ERNIE 5.1 leads

ERNIE 5.1: 65.1 (#52), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MiniMax-M3
LMArena Text14681433
LMArena Creative Writing14411404
LMArena Multi-Turn14711442
EQ-Bench 4—1150

Frequently asked questions

Is ERNIE 5.1 better than MiniMax-M3?

ERNIE 5.1 and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.8 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is ERNIE 5.1 or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

ERNIE 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do ERNIE 5.1 and MiniMax-M3 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. ERNIE 5.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.

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