Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
85
MAI-Thinking-1
65
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) #8 · MAI-Thinking-1 #23
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
Agentic
+28.9 difference
Coding
+1.9 difference
Knowledge
+1.7 difference
Math
+53.2 difference
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
MAI-Thinking-1
$5 / $25
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1M
256K
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 85 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 74.9 against 46. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 69.4% to 46%. MAI-Thinking-1 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for MAI-Thinking-1.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 85 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 69.4% and 46%.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 68.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 71. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97 versus 43.8. Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.9 versus 46. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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