1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs Exaone 4.0 32B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B· Exaone 4.0 32B

Quick Verdict

Pick Exaone 4.0 32B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Exaone 4.0 32B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 75 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Exaone 4.0 32B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 81.8 against 20.7.

Exaone 4.0 32B is the reasoning model in the pair, while 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Exaone 4.0 32B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*N/A
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BExaone 4.0 32B
Agentic
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Coding
Coming soon
Multimodal & Grounded
Coming soon
Reasoning
MuSR45.1%
KnowledgeExaone 4.0 32B wins
GPQA20.7%
MMLU-Pro81.8%
Instruction Following
IFEval63%
Multilingual
Coming soon
MathematicsExaone 4.0 32B wins
MATH-50034.4%
AIME 202585.3%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B is ahead overall, 75 to 39.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 20.7. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 85.3 versus 34.4. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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