K-Exaone vs Z-1

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 47. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

K-Exaone's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 49.4 against 26.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 49.4% to 33%.

K-Exaone is the reasoning model in the pair, while Z-1 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 Z-1.

Quick Verdict

Pick K-Exaone if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Z-1 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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Coding

K-Exaone

K-Exaone

49.4

Z-1

26.1

49.4%
SWE-bench Verified
33%
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HumanEval
44%
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LiveCodeBench
22%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
46%
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OfficeQA Pro
56%

Reasoning

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MuSR
48%
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BBH
74%
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LongBench v2
56%
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MRCRv2
57%

Knowledge

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MMLU
52%
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GPQA
51%
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SuperGPQA
49%
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HLE
6%
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FrontierScience
51%
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SimpleQA
50%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
80%

Multilingual

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MGSM
74%
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MMLU-ProX
72%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
52%
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AIME 2024
54%
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AIME 2025
53%
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HMMT Feb 2023
48%
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HMMT Feb 2024
50%
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HMMT Feb 2025
49%
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BRUMO 2025
51%
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MATH-500
73%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, K-Exaone or Z-1?

K-Exaone is ahead overall, 49 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49.4% and 33%.

Which is better for coding, K-Exaone or Z-1?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 26.1. 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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