# K-EXAONE 2.0 vs ZAYA1-8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for K-EXAONE 2.0 and ZAYA1-8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/k-exaone-2-0-vs-zaya1-8b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick ZAYA1-8B 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

- ZAYA1-8B leads overall 58 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is IFBench in Instruction Following, with scores of 72.6% and 52.6%.
- K-EXAONE 2.0 also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LG AI Research | Zyphra |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 131K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 11 |
| 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
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 45.7 (Estimated · #80/152)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 77.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 39.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-8B | 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 | 65.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 43.3 (Estimated · #118/183)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 83.5% | 74.2% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| GPQA-D | 82.2% | 71.0% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| HLE | 18.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 71% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 35.6 (#110/123)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.4% | 85.6% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| IFBench | 72.6% | 52.6% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| PolyMath | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 62.6 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 92.3% | 89.1% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 78.4% | 71.6% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| IMOAnswerBench | 78.6% | 59.3% | K-EXAONE 2.0 |
| Apex | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, K-EXAONE 2.0 or ZAYA1-8B?

ZAYA1-8B 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 ZAYA1-8B cover on BenchLM?

ZAYA1-8B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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