K-Exaone vs Llama 4 Maverick

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

K-Exaone is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 43. 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 15.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 49.4% to 13%.

K-Exaone is the reasoning model in the pair, while Llama 4 Maverick 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. Llama 4 Maverick gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for K-Exaone.

Quick Verdict

Pick K-Exaone if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Maverick only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 1M context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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Terminal-Bench 2.0
37%
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BrowseComp
51%
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OSWorld-Verified
38%

Coding

K-Exaone

K-Exaone

49.4

Llama 4 Maverick

15.3

49.4%
SWE-bench Verified
13%
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HumanEval
38%
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LiveCodeBench
15%
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SWE-bench Pro
17%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
59%
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OfficeQA Pro
54%

Reasoning

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MuSR
42%
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BBH
63%
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LongBench v2
63%
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MRCRv2
63%

Knowledge

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MMLU
46%
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GPQA
45%
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SuperGPQA
43%
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MMLU-Pro
53%
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HLE
4%
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FrontierScience
45%
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SimpleQA
44%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
68%

Multilingual

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MGSM
63%
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MMLU-ProX
58%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
46%
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AIME 2024
48%
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AIME 2025
47%
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HMMT Feb 2023
42%
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HMMT Feb 2024
44%
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HMMT Feb 2025
43%
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BRUMO 2025
45%
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MATH-500
59%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, K-Exaone or Llama 4 Maverick?

K-Exaone is ahead overall, 49 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49.4% and 13%.

Which is better for coding, K-Exaone or Llama 4 Maverick?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 15.3. 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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