K-Exaone vs Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 72 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 59.9 against 49.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 49.4% to 60%.

K-Exaone gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) 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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Coding

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

K-Exaone

49.4

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

59.9

49.4%
SWE-bench Verified
60%
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HumanEval
83%
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SWE-Rebench
59.9%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

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MuSR
85%

Knowledge

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MMLU
91%
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GPQA
89%
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SuperGPQA
87%
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MMLU-Pro
81%
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SimpleQA
87%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
89%

Multilingual

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Mathematics

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AIME 2023
93%
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AIME 2024
95%
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AIME 2025
94%
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HMMT Feb 2023
89%
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HMMT Feb 2024
91%
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HMMT Feb 2025
90%
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BRUMO 2025
92%
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MATH-500
93%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, K-Exaone or Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 72 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49.4% and 60%.

Which is better for coding, K-Exaone or Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 59.9 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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