Claude Haiku 4.5 vs K-Exaone

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

Claude Haiku 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Haiku 4.5's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 56.2 against 49.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 73.3% to 49.4%.

K-Exaone is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Haiku 4.5 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 Haiku 4.5.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. K-Exaone only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 256K context window or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

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41%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
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62%
BrowseComp
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57%
OSWorld-Verified
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Coding

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

56.2

K-Exaone

49.4

60%
HumanEval
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73.3%
SWE-bench Verified
49.4%
46%
SWE-bench Pro
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23%
FLTEval
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Multimodal & Grounded

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82%
MMMU-Pro
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74%
OfficeQA Pro
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Reasoning

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63%
MuSR
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81%
BBH
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72%
LongBench v2
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70%
MRCRv2
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Knowledge

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68%
MMLU
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67%
GPQA
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65%
SuperGPQA
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73%
MMLU-Pro
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11%
HLE
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64%
FrontierScience
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65%
SimpleQA
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Instruction Following

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86%
IFEval
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Multilingual

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82%
MGSM
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79%
MMLU-ProX
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Mathematics

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68%
AIME 2023
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70%
AIME 2024
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69%
AIME 2025
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64%
HMMT Feb 2023
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66%
HMMT Feb 2024
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65%
HMMT Feb 2025
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67%
BRUMO 2025
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81%
MATH-500
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or K-Exaone?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is ahead overall, 62 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 73.3% and 49.4%.

Which is better for coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or K-Exaone?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 49.4. 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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