Exaone 4.0 32B vs Llama 3.1 405B

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 56. 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 69.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 85.3% to 71%.

Exaone 4.0 32B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Llama 3.1 405B 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.

Quick Verdict

Pick Exaone 4.0 32B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 3.1 405B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Coding

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
HumanEval
62%
Coming soon
SWE-bench Verified
46%

Multimodal & Grounded

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Reasoning

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
MuSR
66%

Knowledge

Exaone 4.0 32B

Exaone 4.0 32B

81.8

Llama 3.1 405B

69.5

81.8%
MMLU-Pro
71%
Coming soon
MMLU
70%
Coming soon
GPQA
70%
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
68%
Coming soon
SimpleQA
68%

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
IFEval
86%

Multilingual

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Mathematics

Exaone 4.0 32B

Exaone 4.0 32B

85.3

Llama 3.1 405B

73.1

85.3%
AIME 2025
71%
Coming soon
AIME 2023
70%
Coming soon
AIME 2024
72%
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2023
66%
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2024
68%
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2025
67%
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
69%
Coming soon
MATH-500
82%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Exaone 4.0 32B or Llama 3.1 405B?

Exaone 4.0 32B is ahead overall, 83 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 85.3% and 71%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Exaone 4.0 32B or Llama 3.1 405B?

Exaone 4.0 32B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 69.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Exaone 4.0 32B or Llama 3.1 405B?

Exaone 4.0 32B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 85.3 versus 73.1. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

Weekly LLM Benchmark Digest

Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.