K-Exaone vs o3

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

o3 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 68 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o3's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 51.9 against 49.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 49.4% to 71.7%.

K-Exaone gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o3.

Quick Verdict

Pick o3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. K-Exaone only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

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BrowseComp
75%
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OSWorld-Verified
65%

Coding

o3

K-Exaone

49.4

o3

51.9

49.4%
SWE-bench Verified
71.7%
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HumanEval
78%
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LiveCodeBench
40%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
70%
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OfficeQA Pro
75%

Reasoning

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MuSR
82%
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LongBench v2
82%
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MRCRv2
81%
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ARC-AGI-2
3%

Knowledge

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MMLU
86%
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GPQA
87%
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SuperGPQA
85%
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MMLU-Pro
75%
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HLE
24%
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SimpleQA
84%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
85%

Multilingual

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MGSM
83%
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MMLU-ProX
80%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
88%
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AIME 2024
90%
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AIME 2025
89%
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HMMT Feb 2023
84%
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HMMT Feb 2024
86%
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HMMT Feb 2025
85%
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BRUMO 2025
87%
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MATH-500
88%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, K-Exaone or o3?

o3 is ahead overall, 68 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49.4% and 71.7%.

Which is better for coding, K-Exaone or o3?

o3 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 51.9 versus 49.4. 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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