LG Opens Free Access to K-EXAONE 2.5 API
LG AI Research made its K-EXAONE 2.5 API available free of charge on November 9, 2026, according to LG. The company announced the opening at NVIDIA AI Day Seoul, held in Seoul.
The free access covers research and service development, LG said. Developers, research institutions, startups and companies can use the model after securing a key from the EXAONE API Platform.
LG’s account of agentic AI centres on systems that organise tasks and perform work using tools. The evaluations it cited examine automation, workplace problem-solving, online research and software tasks. Those tests do not establish how the model performs in every real-world application.
For automation involving SaaS tools, LG published an AutomationBench score of 74.6. Its Claw-Eval result was 77.3, on a test the company describes as assessing agents’ ability to solve workplace problems. Both figures came from LG AI Research’s own evaluations using public datasets, rather than independent validation.
Web research was assessed through BrowseComp, where LG reported a score of 78.0. For software development or modification, the company’s SWE-Bench Pro result was 59.2. These figures likewise represent company-run testing on public datasets, not independently validated results.
The November 9 announcement also included a comparison covering 24 evaluation measures. According to LG’s internal analysis, the aggregate result for K-EXAONE 2.5 exceeded that of its August 2026 model by more than 70%. That comparison concerns the company’s combined evaluation results, rather than an independently established improvement across all uses.
LG said K-EXAONE 2.5 is a model for technical validation, developed through further training of its second foundation-model version. The company dates the release of that underlying version to August 2026.
* This article is based on publicly available information at the time of writing.