Claude 4.1 Opus vs Exaone 4.0 32B

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

Exaone 4.0 32B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 83 to 53. 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 74.

Exaone 4.0 32B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 4.1 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. Claude 4.1 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Exaone 4.0 32B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Exaone 4.0 32B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 200K context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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43.3%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
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Coding

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74.5%
SWE-bench Verified
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Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

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Knowledge

Exaone 4.0 32B

Claude 4.1 Opus

74

Exaone 4.0 32B

81.8

74%
SimpleQA
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MMLU-Pro
81.8%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

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AIME 2025
85.3%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 4.1 Opus or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B is ahead overall, 83 to 53.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 74. Claude 4.1 Opus stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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