Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.4 mini
69
MAI-Thinking-1
65
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.4 mini unranked · MAI-Thinking-1 #23
Pick GPT-5.4 mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Agentic
+19.6 difference
Knowledge
+12.5 difference
GPT-5.4 mini
MAI-Thinking-1
$0.75 / $4.5
N/A
201 t/s
N/A
3.85s
N/A
400K
256K
Pick GPT-5.4 mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
GPT-5.4 mini is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 69 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.4 mini's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 65.6 against 46. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 60% to 46%. MAI-Thinking-1 does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
GPT-5.4 mini gives you the larger context window at 400K, compared with 256K for MAI-Thinking-1.
GPT-5.4 mini is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 69 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 60% and 46%.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 57.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.4 mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 46. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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