Claude 3 Opus vs K-Exaone

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

K-Exaone finishes one point ahead overall, 49 to 48. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

K-Exaone's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 49.4 against 10. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 10% to 49.4%.

K-Exaone is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 3 Opus 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. K-Exaone gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 3 Opus.

Quick Verdict

Pick K-Exaone if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Opus only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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Coding

K-Exaone

Claude 3 Opus

10

K-Exaone

49.4

84.9%
HumanEval
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10%
SWE-bench Verified
49.4%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

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57%
MuSR
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Knowledge

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86.8%
MMLU
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61%
GPQA
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59%
SuperGPQA
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62%
MMLU-Pro
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59%
SimpleQA
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Instruction Following

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77%
IFEval
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Multilingual

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Mathematics

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61%
AIME 2023
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63%
AIME 2024
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62%
AIME 2025
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57%
HMMT Feb 2023
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59%
HMMT Feb 2024
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58%
HMMT Feb 2025
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60%
BRUMO 2025
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73%
MATH-500
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 3 Opus or K-Exaone?

K-Exaone is ahead overall, 49 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 10% and 49.4%.

Which is better for coding, Claude 3 Opus or K-Exaone?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 10. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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