K-Exaone vs Qwen3 235B 2507

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

K-Exaone is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 45. 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 30.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 49.4% to 15%.

K-Exaone is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen3 235B 2507 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 Qwen3 235B 2507.

Quick Verdict

Pick K-Exaone if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3 235B 2507 only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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Terminal-Bench 2.0
33%
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BrowseComp
40%
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OSWorld-Verified
30%

Coding

K-Exaone

K-Exaone

49.4

Qwen3 235B 2507

30.7

49.4%
SWE-bench Verified
15%
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HumanEval
31%
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LiveCodeBench
51.8%
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SWE-bench Pro
19%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
38%
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OfficeQA Pro
46%

Reasoning

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MuSR
35%
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BBH
60%
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LongBench v2
52%
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MRCRv2
52%

Knowledge

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MMLU
39%
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GPQA
77.5%
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SuperGPQA
62.6%
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MMLU-Pro
83%
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HLE
1%
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FrontierScience
39%
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SimpleQA
54.3%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
88.7%

Multilingual

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MGSM
63%
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MMLU-ProX
79.4%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
39%
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AIME 2024
41%
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AIME 2025
70.3%
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HMMT Feb 2023
35%
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HMMT Feb 2024
37%
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HMMT Feb 2025
36%
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BRUMO 2025
38%
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MATH-500
57%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, K-Exaone or Qwen3 235B 2507?

K-Exaone is ahead overall, 49 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49.4% and 15%.

Which is better for coding, K-Exaone or Qwen3 235B 2507?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 30.7. 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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