DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) 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 66. 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 63.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 88% to 85.3%. DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick Exaone 4.0 32B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.

Agentic

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71%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
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70%
BrowseComp
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67%
OSWorld-Verified
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Coding

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79%
HumanEval
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48%
SWE-bench Verified
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45%
LiveCodeBench
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58%
SWE-bench Pro
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Multimodal & Grounded

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66%
MMMU-Pro
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77%
OfficeQA Pro
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Reasoning

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81%
MuSR
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86%
BBH
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78%
LongBench v2
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78%
MRCRv2
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4%
ARC-AGI-2
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Knowledge

Exaone 4.0 32B

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)

63.9

Exaone 4.0 32B

81.8

87%
MMLU
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85%
GPQA
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83%
SuperGPQA
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22%
HLE
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77%
FrontierScience
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83%
SimpleQA
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MMLU-Pro
81.8%

Instruction Following

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85%
IFEval
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Multilingual

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84%
MGSM
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79%
MMLU-ProX
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Mathematics

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)

86.3

Exaone 4.0 32B

85.3

87%
AIME 2023
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89%
AIME 2024
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88%
AIME 2025
85.3%
83%
HMMT Feb 2023
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85%
HMMT Feb 2024
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84%
HMMT Feb 2025
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86%
BRUMO 2025
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84%
MATH-500
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B is ahead overall, 83 to 66. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 88% and 85.3%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 63.9. DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Exaone 4.0 32B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.3 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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