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ERNIE 5.1vsMAI-Thinking-1

ERNIE 5.1 and MAI-Thinking-1 do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. MAI-Thinking-1 has the larger context window (256K tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
MAI-Thinking-1
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
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Baidu · Microsoft
ERNIE 5.1
Baidu · released 2026-05-09
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Context
128K
Max out
66K
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
2 · 2 core
MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft · released 2026-08-12
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Context
256K
Max out
64K
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
15 · 7 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkERNIE 5.1MAI-Thinking-1ΔEdge
Reported by both · 0
No public benchmark is reported for both models yet.
Only ERNIE 5.1 reports · 2
LMArena Elo1468.2 not reported
AIME 2026 (with tools)99.6% not reported
Only MAI-Thinking-1 reports · 15
SWE-bench Verifiednot reported73.5%
GPQA Diamondnot reported84.2%
MMLU-Pronot reported85%
AIME 2025not reported97%
AIME 2026not reported94.5%
AdvancedIFnot reported85%
BFCL v3not reported72%
GraphWalks (<=128K)not reported90%
HMMT February 2026not reported84.9%
IFBenchnot reported69%
LiveCodeBench v6not reported87.7%
MultiChallengenot reported53%
SimpleQA Verifiednot reported31%
SWE-bench Pronot reported52.8%
Terminal-Bench 2.0not reported46%
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is ERNIE 5.1 minus MAI-Thinking-1 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecERNIE 5.1MAI-Thinking-1Edge
Context window128K tokens256K tokensMAI-Thinking-1
Max output66K tokens64K tokensERNIE 5.1
Input price / 1M
Output price / 1M
Cached input / 1M
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2026-05-092026-08-12
Cited benchmark scores215
Reliability

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