Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.5 Pro
100
MAI-Thinking-1
65
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.5 Pro unranked · MAI-Thinking-1 #23
Pick GPT-5.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
Agentic
+44.1 difference
Knowledge
+12.7 difference
Math
+44.6 difference
GPT-5.5 Pro
MAI-Thinking-1
$30 / $180
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N/A
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N/A
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1M
256K
Pick GPT-5.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
GPT-5.5 Pro is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 100 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.5 Pro's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 90.1 against 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.
GPT-5.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for MAI-Thinking-1.
GPT-5.5 Pro is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 100 to 65.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 57.2. GPT-5.5 Pro stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97 versus 52.4. GPT-5.5 Pro stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
GPT-5.5 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 90.1 versus 46. MAI-Thinking-1 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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