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ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning scores 83.9 on IFEval, placing it #215 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
83.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#215
of 600
Percentile
64th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
12.2
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning sits at #215 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 12.2 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning above the midpoint.

Baidu models average 82.9 on this benchmark. ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning is 1.0 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Baidu model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 85.2. ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning is 1.3 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 83.9 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $12.20 per million input tokens, ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 3 Lambda Instruct Lambda 32768 $3.92 75.8
Reka Flash Max Reka AI 32768 $11.17 75.9
MiniMax-Text Chat MiniMax 128000 $4.26 77.8
Phi-4 Chat Microsoft 65536 $3.66 74.7
ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning Baidu 65536 $12.20 77.8
Llama 3 Baseten Baseten 128000 $3.62 74.9
Gemma 3 Chat Google DeepMind 65536 $3.74 74.5

Other benchmarks for ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 81.6 131 78th
GPQA Diamond 75.0 145 76th
SWE-bench Verified 63.9 234 61th
HumanEval 82.3 179 70th
MATH-500 79.1 231 62th
AIME 2025 77.2 127 79th
LiveCodeBench 70.2 187 69th
TruthfulQA 81.2 148 75th
HellaSwag 86.7 187 69th
MMMU 75.1 161 73th
Arena Elo 1398.7 211 65th

FAQ

What score does ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning get on IFEval?

ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning scores 83.9 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning rank on IFEval?

It ranks #215 of 600 models, in the 64th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning good at IFEval?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning cost?

ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning costs $12.20 per million input tokens and $55.24 per million output tokens.

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