Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.5
91
MAI-Thinking-1
65
Verified leaderboard positions: GPT-5.5 #6 · MAI-Thinking-1 #23
Pick GPT-5.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
Agentic
+35.5 difference
Coding
+12.4 difference
Knowledge
+3.5 difference
Math
+45.3 difference
GPT-5.5
MAI-Thinking-1
$5 / $30
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1M
256K
Pick GPT-5.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
GPT-5.5 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 91 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.5's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 81.5 against 46. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 82% 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.
GPT-5.5 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for MAI-Thinking-1.
GPT-5.5 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 91 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 82% and 46%.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 66.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 71 versus 58.6. 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 51.7. GPT-5.5 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
GPT-5.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 46. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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