Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
LongCat-2.0
80
MAI-Thinking-1
65
Verified leaderboard positions: LongCat-2.0 unranked · MAI-Thinking-1 #26
Pick LongCat-2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+24.8 difference
Coding
+11.5 difference
LongCat-2.0
MAI-Thinking-1
$0.75 / $2.95
N/A
N/A
N/A
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1M
256K
Pick LongCat-2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
LongCat-2.0 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 80 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
LongCat-2.0's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 70.8 against 46. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 70.8% to 46%. MAI-Thinking-1 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
LongCat-2.0 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for MAI-Thinking-1.
LongCat-2.0 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 80 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 70.8% and 46%.
MAI-Thinking-1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 71 versus 59.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LongCat-2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.8 versus 46. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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