Claude Opus 4.6 vs Exaone 4.0 32B

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

Exaone 4.0 32B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 83 versus 80. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Exaone 4.0 32B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 81.8 against 75.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 98% to 85.3%. Claude Opus 4.6 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Exaone 4.0 32B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.6 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 Opus 4.6 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Exaone 4.0 32B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Exaone 4.0 32B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 4.6 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Agentic

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65.4%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
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84%
BrowseComp
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72.7%
OSWorld-Verified
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Coding

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91%
HumanEval
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80.8%
SWE-bench Verified
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76%
LiveCodeBench
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39.6%
FLTEval
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65.3%
SWE-Rebench
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Multimodal & Grounded

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77.3%
MMMU-Pro
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Reasoning

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93%
MuSR
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76%
MRCRv2
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68.8%
ARC-AGI-2
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Knowledge

Exaone 4.0 32B

Claude Opus 4.6

75.5

Exaone 4.0 32B

81.8

99%
MMLU
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91.3%
GPQA
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95%
SuperGPQA
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82%
MMLU-Pro
81.8%
53%
HLE
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72%
SimpleQA
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Instruction Following

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95%
IFEval
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Multilingual

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96%
MGSM
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Mathematics

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

97.3

Exaone 4.0 32B

85.3

99%
AIME 2023
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99%
AIME 2024
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98%
AIME 2025
85.3%
95%
HMMT Feb 2023
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97%
HMMT Feb 2024
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96%
HMMT Feb 2025
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96%
BRUMO 2025
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98%
MATH-500
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B is ahead overall, 83 to 80. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 98% and 85.3%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.6 or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 75.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude Opus 4.6 or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97.3 versus 85.3. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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