Korean LLMs, compared independently

Vendor-funding-free attributes for Korean LLMs and the global models teams compare them against. Numbers are sourced; a paid diagnostic measures them on your prompts.

Korean models

Solar Pro 3

Upstage

Korean-optimized reasoning; the only Korean model on the Frontier intelligence leaderboard.

params:: 102B MoE (활성 12B)
context:: —
license:: API
price:: $0.15/$0.6 /1M

HyperCLOVA X (THINK)

Naver

Strong Korean reasoning/search (high on Korean benchmarks); tight Korean data/search integration.

params:: 비공개
context:: —
license:: API
price:: self-host / console

EXAONE 4.0 32B

LG AI Research

Robust EN+KO; highest Artificial Analysis intelligence (62) among 32B models.

params:: 32B (경량 1.2B 변형 존재)
context:: 130K
license:: restricted
price:: self-host / console

A.X 4.0

SK Telecom

KMMLU 78.3 (> GPT-4o 72.5); ~33% better Korean token efficiency than GPT-4o.

params:: 72B / 7B (경량)
context:: —
license:: open/commercial
price:: self-host / console

Trillion 7B

Trillion Labs

KOBEST 0.795 (top tier); strong Korean nuance for its size.

params:: 7B
context:: —
license:: open/commercial
price:: self-host / console

Global comparison set

Claude

Anthropic

Top-tier Korean long-form instruction-following among global models.

params:: 비공개
context:: 200K
license:: API
price:: self-host / console

GPT

OpenAI

Strong generalist; Korean cost-efficiency/honorific consistency can trail Korea-tuned models.

params:: 비공개
context:: 128K
license:: API
price:: self-host / console

Gemini

Google

Long context + multimodal; Korean quality task-dependent.

params:: 비공개
context:: 1000K
license:: API
price:: self-host / console

Head-to-head

⇄ solar-pro vs hyperclova-x ⇄ solar-pro vs exaone-4 ⇄ hyperclova-x vs ax-4 ⇄ exaone-4 vs ax-4 ⇄ solar-pro vs claude ⇄ hyperclova-x vs gpt ⇄ ax-4 vs gpt ⇄ solar-pro vs gpt ⇄ solar-pro vs gemini ⇄ hyperclova-x vs claude ⇄ exaone-4 vs claude ⇄ hyperclova-x vs exaone-4 ⇄ trillion-7b vs ax-4 ⇄ ax-4 vs claude

By use case

→ Best Korean LLM for customer support chatbots → Best Korean LLM for on-prem enterprise → Best Korean LLM for document summarization → Best Korean LLM for cost-sensitive use → Best Korean LLM for coding assistance → Best Korean LLM for RAG / retrieval-augmented → Best Korean LLM for finance / regulated work

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