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What's your use case and what are you looking to improve? If you are just gaming it's a pointless upgrade to either of those CPU's, as the 12400f is already a capable 6-core/12-thread processor so the 12600k would absolutely be a sidegrade at best for $110 unless you really need the e-cores for something? The 12700kf is also a good processor but I'm not sure how big an upgrade it would be from your 12400 either... depends a lot on what you use it for.
Spending $110-$170 on something that has no meaningful impact on performance vs what you're starting with is a bad purchase. Without more info it's impossible to give a useful recommendation.