K-Exaone vs Qwen2.5-1M

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

Qwen2.5-1M is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 67 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 Qwen2.5-1M 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. Qwen2.5-1M gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for K-Exaone.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-1M if you want the stronger benchmark profile. K-Exaone only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

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Terminal-Bench 2.0
65%
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BrowseComp
72%
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OSWorld-Verified
59%

Coding

K-Exaone

K-Exaone

49.4

Qwen2.5-1M

45.1

49.4%
SWE-bench Verified
47%
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HumanEval
76%
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LiveCodeBench
40%
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SWE-bench Pro
49%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
63%
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OfficeQA Pro
75%

Reasoning

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MuSR
79%
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BBH
82%
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LongBench v2
82%
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MRCRv2
81%

Knowledge

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MMLU
84%
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GPQA
83%
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SuperGPQA
81%
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MMLU-Pro
74%
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HLE
10%
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FrontierScience
74%
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SimpleQA
81%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
84%

Multilingual

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MGSM
81%
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MMLU-ProX
80%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
85%
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AIME 2024
87%
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AIME 2025
86%
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HMMT Feb 2023
81%
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HMMT Feb 2024
83%
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HMMT Feb 2025
82%
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BRUMO 2025
84%
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MATH-500
83%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, K-Exaone or Qwen2.5-1M?

Qwen2.5-1M is ahead overall, 67 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49.4% and 47%.

Which is better for coding, K-Exaone or Qwen2.5-1M?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 45.1. 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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