# K-EXAONE 2.0 vs Qwen3.8-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for K-EXAONE 2.0 and Qwen3.8-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/k-exaone-2-0-vs-qwen3-8-27b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8-27B 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

- Qwen3.8-27B leads overall 64.52 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 43.8% and 73.0%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Qwen3.8-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LG AI Research | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 64.52 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 33 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 63.4 (Supported · #13/152)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | 73.0% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| Claw-Eval | 77.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 33.4% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 42.9% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 64.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 58.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 53.9 (Supported · #43/151)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 37.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | 73.0% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 61.7% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 42.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 42.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 82.6% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 80 (#11/48)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 65.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 62.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.1% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 85.9% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 77.4 (#7/20)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 54.1 (Supported · #58/183)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 83.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 82.2% | 89.2% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| HLE | 18.3% | 30.8% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| MMMLU | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 30.8% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.9% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 84.7 (#45/123)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 72.6% | 79.5% | Qwen3.8-27B |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| PolyMath | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Qwen3.8-27B | 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

### Which is better overall, K-EXAONE 2.0 or Qwen3.8-27B?

Qwen3.8-27B 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 Qwen3.8-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8-27B currently has 33 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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