Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
87
MAI-Thinking-1
65
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemini 3.5 Flash #9 · MAI-Thinking-1 #23
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+31.2 difference
Coding
+16.5 difference
Knowledge
+11.9 difference
Inst. Following
+8.7 difference
Gemini 3.5 Flash
MAI-Thinking-1
$1.5 / $9
N/A
284.2 t/s
N/A
18.55s
N/A
1M
256K
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 87 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 3.5 Flash's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 77.2 against 46. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 76.2% to 46%. MAI-Thinking-1 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemini 3.5 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for MAI-Thinking-1.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 87 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 76.2% and 46%.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 58. Inside this category, GPQA-D is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 71 versus 54.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 46. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 76.3. Inside this category, IFBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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