DeepSeek V3.1 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 35. 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 14.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 13% to 49.4%.

K-Exaone is the reasoning model in the pair, while DeepSeek V3.1 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 128K for DeepSeek V3.1.

Quick Verdict

Pick K-Exaone if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.1 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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29%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
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39%
BrowseComp
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33%
OSWorld-Verified
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Coding

K-Exaone

DeepSeek V3.1

14.5

K-Exaone

49.4

25%
HumanEval
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13%
SWE-bench Verified
49.4%
15%
LiveCodeBench
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15%
SWE-bench Pro
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Multimodal & Grounded

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35%
MMMU-Pro
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45%
OfficeQA Pro
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Reasoning

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29%
MuSR
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61%
BBH
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46%
LongBench v2
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Knowledge

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33%
MMLU
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32%
GPQA
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30%
SuperGPQA
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53%
MMLU-Pro
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2%
HLE
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37%
FrontierScience
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31%
SimpleQA
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Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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64%
MGSM
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Mathematics

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33%
AIME 2023
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35%
AIME 2024
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34%
AIME 2025
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29%
HMMT Feb 2023
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31%
HMMT Feb 2024
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30%
HMMT Feb 2025
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32%
BRUMO 2025
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.1 or K-Exaone?

K-Exaone is ahead overall, 49 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 13% and 49.4%.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.1 or K-Exaone?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 14.5. 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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