K-Exaone vs Mistral Large 2

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

Mistral Large 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 59 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 Mistral Large 2 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 Mistral Large 2.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral Large 2 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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Terminal-Bench 2.0
51%
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BrowseComp
57%
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OSWorld-Verified
50%

Coding

K-Exaone

K-Exaone

49.4

Mistral Large 2

42.8

49.4%
SWE-bench Verified
49%
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HumanEval
60%
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LiveCodeBench
38%
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SWE-bench Pro
44%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
56%
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OfficeQA Pro
67%

Reasoning

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MuSR
64%
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BBH
82%
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LongBench v2
66%
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MRCRv2
68%

Knowledge

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MMLU
68%
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GPQA
68%
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SuperGPQA
66%
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MMLU-Pro
74%
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HLE
12%
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FrontierScience
65%
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SimpleQA
66%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
83%

Multilingual

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MGSM
81%
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MMLU-ProX
78%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
68%
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AIME 2024
70%
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AIME 2025
69%
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HMMT Feb 2023
64%
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HMMT Feb 2024
66%
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HMMT Feb 2025
65%
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BRUMO 2025
67%
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MATH-500
82%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, K-Exaone or Mistral Large 2?

Mistral Large 2 is ahead overall, 59 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49.4% and 49%.

Which is better for coding, K-Exaone or Mistral Large 2?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 42.8. 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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