# K-EXAONE 2.0 vs Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for K-EXAONE 2.0 and Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/k-exaone-2-0-vs-mellum2-12b-a2-5b-thinking
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: K-EXAONE 2.0 and Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- K-EXAONE 2.0 has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LG AI Research | JetBrains |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 6 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: 45.8 (Estimated · #79/152)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 77.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 45.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 37.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 69.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: 46.3 (Estimated · #103/183)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 83.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 82.2% | 57.6% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| HLE | 18.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 57.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.4% | 76.5% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| IFBench | 72.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| PolyMath | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 92.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | 78.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between K-EXAONE 2.0 and Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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