# Flint vs K-EXAONE 2.0

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Flint and K-EXAONE 2.0 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/flint-40b-a2-5b-vs-k-exaone-2-0
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Flint if you want the stronger benchmark profile. K-EXAONE 2.0 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Flint leads overall 67 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is IFBench in Instruction Following, with scores of 89.2% and 72.6%.
- K-EXAONE 2.0 also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Flint | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Recursive | LG AI Research |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 15 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 54.9% | 43.8% | Flint |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 77.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.2% | 68.2% | Flint |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 80.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 37.4% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 43.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 83.5% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 82.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 18.3% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: 94.7 (#3/152)
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 89.2% | 72.6% | Flint |
| IFEval | 95.1% | 92.4% | Flint |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 92.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 78.6% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Flint or K-EXAONE 2.0?

Flint is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Flint cover on BenchLM?

Flint currently has 5 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does K-EXAONE 2.0 cover on BenchLM?

K-EXAONE 2.0 currently has 15 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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## Explore More

- [Flint profile](/models/flint-40b-a2-5b)
- [K-EXAONE 2.0 profile](/models/k-exaone-2-0)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)