Which is better for coding — GPT-5.1 Medium or K-EXAONE-236B-A23B?

Direct comparison on the SWE-Bench benchmark is not available. We recommend reviewing other metrics on the comparison page.

Which model is cheaper — GPT-5.1 Medium or K-EXAONE-236B-A23B?

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B is cheaper for input: $0.60 per 1M tokens vs $1.00.

Which has a larger context window — GPT-5.1 Medium or K-EXAONE-236B-A23B?

GPT-5.1 Medium supports a larger context: 256,000 tokens vs 32,768.

GPT-5.1 Medium vs K-EXAONE-236B-A23B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison

Characteristic	GPT-5.1 Medium	K-EXAONE-236B-A23B
Company	OpenAI	LG AI Research
Release Date	November 11, 2025	December 30, 2025
Parameters	—	236B
Multimodal	Yes	No
Context (input)	256K	33K
Context (output)	64K	33K
Input Price / 1M	$1.00	$0.60
Output Price / 1M	$4.00	$1.00
Average Score	1.0	0.8
Benchmarks
AIME 2025	1.0	0.9

Visual Benchmark Comparison

GPT-5.1 Medium

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B

AIME 20251.0 vs 0.9

1.0

0.9

Verdict

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.

Overall Performance

Both models show comparable average scores: GPT-5.1 Medium — 1.0, K-EXAONE-236B-A23B — 0.8.

API Cost

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B is 3.1x cheaper: input $0.60/1M vs $1.00/1M tokens.

Context Window

GPT-5.1 Medium supports a larger context: 256K vs 33K tokens.

Recency

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B is newer: released 12/30/2025 vs 11/11/2025.

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