Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 12B
53
MAI-Thinking-1
65
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemma 4 12B unranked · MAI-Thinking-1 #23
Pick MAI-Thinking-1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Coding
+1.0 difference
Knowledge
+7.9 difference
Gemma 4 12B
MAI-Thinking-1
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Pick MAI-Thinking-1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
MAI-Thinking-1 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 65 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
MAI-Thinking-1 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 65 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 72% and 87.7%.
Gemma 4 12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 69.9. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72 versus 71. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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