# K-EXAONE 2.0 vs MAI-Thinking-1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for K-EXAONE 2.0 and MAI-Thinking-1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/k-exaone-2-0-vs-mai-thinking-1
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick MAI-Thinking-1 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

- MAI-Thinking-1 leads overall 52 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is IFBench in Instruction Following, with scores of 72.6% and 85%.
- K-EXAONE 2.0 also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | K-EXAONE 2.0 | MAI-Thinking-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LG AI Research | Microsoft |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 256K |
| Overall Score | null | 52 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 50.3 (Estimated · #50/152)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 77.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 50.4 (Estimated · #57/151)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 37.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | 73.5% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 52.3 (Estimated · #66/183)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 83.5% | 85% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| GPQA-D | 82.2% | 84.2% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| HLE | 18.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 31% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/123)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 72.6% | 85% | MAI-Thinking-1 |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| PolyMath | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 92.3% | 94.5% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 78.4% | 84.9% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| IMOAnswerBench | 78.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 97% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, K-EXAONE 2.0 or MAI-Thinking-1?

MAI-Thinking-1 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does MAI-Thinking-1 cover on BenchLM?

MAI-Thinking-1 currently has 14 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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