Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Grok 4.3
75
MAI-Thinking-1
65
Verified leaderboard positions: Grok 4.3 unranked · MAI-Thinking-1 #23
Pick Grok 4.3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Coding
+23.7 difference
Knowledge
+16.0 difference
Inst. Following
+3.7 difference
Grok 4.3
MAI-Thinking-1
$1.25 / $2.5
N/A
209 t/s
N/A
12.36s
N/A
1M
256K
Pick Grok 4.3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Grok 4.3 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 75 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Grok 4.3 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for MAI-Thinking-1.
Grok 4.3 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 75 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 90.1% and 84.2%.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 53.9. 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 47.3. Grok 4.3 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 81.3. Inside this category, IFBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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