Gemini vs K-EXAONE (K-엑사원) comparison

Gemini and K-EXAONE (K-엑사원) compared side by side in AI.

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What is different

Starting price

Gemini≈€4.45+ ($4.99)

K-EXAONE (K-엑사원)Free

Free tier

GeminiFree plan available

K-EXAONE (K-엑사원)Free

Gemini

Google's AI assistant. Connects directly to Google services such as Gmail, Drive and YouTube

What is good

Strong integration with Google services
Good with long documents and video (up to 1M context)
Can start with the cheap AI Plus ($4.99)

What could be better

Fewer advantages outside the Google ecosystem
Features are split up in a complicated way across plans

Gemini official site

K-EXAONE (K-엑사원)

A 750 billion-parameter Korean open model made by LG AI Research under the government's independent AI foundation model project (the largest in Korea, free for commercial use)

What is good

Korea's largest open model at 750B
No commercial use restrictions under Apache 2.0
262K long context, strong on the Korean long-text benchmark (Ko-LongBench 89.6)

What could be better

Running it yourself needs about 16 H200-class GPUs, so it is hard for individuals
LG has no paid API of its own or app for general users yet

K-EXAONE (K-엑사원) official site

At a glance

Item	GeminiVisit site	K-EXAONE (K-엑사원)Visit site
Starting price	≈€4.45+ ($4.99)Official USD price	FreeNot applicable
Free tier	Free plan available	Free
Korean support	Good	Good
Main models	Gemini 4 Argon Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 3.1 Pro Gemini 3 Deep Think Nano Banana 2/Pro (image) Gemini Omni/Veo 3.1 (video)	K-EXAONE 2.0 750B-A37B (750B total, 37B active MoE) FP8/NVFP4 quantized versions DSpark variant
Type	AI services	AI services
Category	Chatbot/Assistant, Search, Image Generation	Open Models
Company	Google, United States	LG AI Research (LG AI연구원), South Korea
Plans	Free AI Plus $4.99 AI Pro $19.99 AI Ultra $99.99 (5x), $199.99 (20x) Enterprise from $21	Model weights free (Apache 2.0, commercial use allowed) Web demo k.exaone.ai Hosted API is pay-as-you-go from outside providers such as FriendliAI (prices set by each provider)
Pros	Strong integration with Google services Good with long documents and video (up to 1M context) Can start with the cheap AI Plus ($4.99)	Korea's largest open model at 750B No commercial use restrictions under Apache 2.0 262K long context, strong on the Korean long-text benchmark (Ko-LongBench 89.6) High safety rating in the Korean context Reasoning mode can be turned on and off, tool calling supported
Cons	Fewer advantages outside the Google ecosystem Features are split up in a complicated way across plans	Running it yourself needs about 16 H200-class GPUs, so it is hard for individuals LG has no paid API of its own or app for general users yet Text only LG itself says it is only a 'starting point'

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Prices converted at 1 USD = ₩1,327.84 (2026-10-20). Original price shown in brackets. Taxes as listed by each provider.

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