K-Exaone vs Phi-4

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

K-Exaone has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 49 versus 46. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

K-Exaone is the reasoning model in the pair, while Phi-4 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 16K for Phi-4.

Quick Verdict

Pick K-Exaone if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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Terminal-Bench 2.0
44%
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BrowseComp
35%
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OSWorld-Verified
34%

Coding

Phi-4

K-Exaone

49.4

Phi-4

55

49.4%
SWE-bench Verified
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HumanEval
82.6%
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SWE-bench Pro
55%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
54%
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OfficeQA Pro
38%

Reasoning

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LongBench v2
30%
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MRCRv2
33%

Knowledge

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MMLU
84.8%
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GPQA
56.1%
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FrontierScience
52%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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MGSM
80.6%
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MMLU-ProX
60%

Mathematics

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, K-Exaone or Phi-4?

K-Exaone is ahead overall, 49 to 46.

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

Phi-4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 55 versus 49.4. K-Exaone stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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