# K-EXAONE 2.0 vs ZAYA1-74B-Preview

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for K-EXAONE 2.0 and ZAYA1-74B-Preview across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/k-exaone-2-0-vs-zaya1-74b-preview
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick ZAYA1-74B-Preview 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

- ZAYA1-74B-Preview leads overall 45 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA-D in Knowledge, with scores of 82.2% and 57.3%.
- K-EXAONE 2.0 also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-74B-Preview |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LG AI Research | Zyphra |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 256K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 7 |
| 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
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 77.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench Airline | Coming soon | 56.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: 46.6 (Estimated · #78/151)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 37.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | 53.2% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 65.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: 44.5 (Estimated · #114/183)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 83.5% | 68.1% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| GPQA-D | 82.2% | 57.3% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| HLE | 18.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 57.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 72.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| PolyMath | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: 56.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 92.3% | 76.4% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| 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 ZAYA1-74B-Preview?

ZAYA1-74B-Preview 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 ZAYA1-74B-Preview cover on BenchLM?

ZAYA1-74B-Preview currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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