DeepSeek-R1 vs K-Exaone

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

K-Exaone is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 45. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

K-Exaone's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 49.4 against 28.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 49.2% to 49.4%.

K-Exaone gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek-R1.

Quick Verdict

Pick K-Exaone if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek-R1 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

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42%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
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49%
BrowseComp
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44%
OSWorld-Verified
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Coding

K-Exaone

DeepSeek-R1

28.3

K-Exaone

49.4

92%
HumanEval
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49.2%
SWE-bench Verified
49.4%
19%
LiveCodeBench
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25%
SWE-bench Pro
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Multimodal & Grounded

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43%
MMMU-Pro
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53%
OfficeQA Pro
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Reasoning

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40%
MuSR
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66%
BBH
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58%
LongBench v2
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57%
MRCRv2
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1.3%
ARC-AGI-2
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Knowledge

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90.8%
MMLU
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71.5%
GPQA
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41%
SuperGPQA
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84%
MMLU-Pro
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14%
HLE
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44%
FrontierScience
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30.1%
SimpleQA
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Instruction Following

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83.3%
IFEval
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Multilingual

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61%
MGSM
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60%
MMLU-ProX
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Mathematics

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44%
AIME 2023
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79.8%
AIME 2024
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45%
AIME 2025
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40%
HMMT Feb 2023
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42%
HMMT Feb 2024
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41%
HMMT Feb 2025
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43%
BRUMO 2025
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97.3%
MATH-500
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek-R1 or K-Exaone?

K-Exaone is ahead overall, 49 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49.2% and 49.4%.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek-R1 or K-Exaone?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 28.3. 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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