Ernie 5.0 Preview 1203vsClaude Opus 4 20250514 Thinking 16k

Ernie 5.0 Preview 1203 leads the overall Podium Score by 1.0 points (72.0 vs 71.0).Category wins: Ernie 5.0 Preview 1203 0 — 0 Claude Opus 4 20250514 Thinking 16k.Ernie 5.0 Preview 1203 is the cheaper pick ($3/M vs $15/M per 1M output tokens). Ernie 5.0 Preview 1203 is faster (50 t/s vs 50 t/s).

Key VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis

Ernie 5.0 Preview 1203 is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 72.0 (vs 71.0 for Claude Opus 4 20250514 Thinking 16k). Both models show closely matched capabilities across domain benchmarks.

Coding & Engineering
Comparable
Inference Speed
Ernie 5.0 Preview 1203 (50 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Ernie 5.0 Preview 1203 ($3/M/M)
MetricErnie 5.0 Preview 1203Claude Opus 4 20250514 Thinking 16k
Podium Score72.0 ▲71.0
Arena Elo
Intelligence Index
Coding
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Agentic
Knowledge
Multimodal
Long-context
Output speed50 t/s50 t/s
Output price$3/M ▲$15/M
Context window128K128K
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Ernie 5.0 vs Claude Mythos · Ernie 5.0 vs Claude Fable 5 · Ernie 5.0 vs Kimi K3 · Ernie 5.0 vs Claude Opus 5
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