K-Exaone vs Llama 3.1 405B

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

Llama 3.1 405B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 56 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

K-Exaone 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. K-Exaone gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Llama 3.1 405B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 3.1 405B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. K-Exaone only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

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Coding

K-Exaone

K-Exaone

49.4

Llama 3.1 405B

46

49.4%
SWE-bench Verified
46%
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HumanEval
62%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

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MuSR
66%

Knowledge

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MMLU
70%
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GPQA
70%
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SuperGPQA
68%
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MMLU-Pro
71%
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SimpleQA
68%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
86%

Multilingual

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Mathematics

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, K-Exaone or Llama 3.1 405B?

Llama 3.1 405B is ahead overall, 56 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49.4% and 46%.

Which is better for coding, K-Exaone or Llama 3.1 405B?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 46. 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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