Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
MAI-Thinking-1
65
o1
57
Verified leaderboard positions: MAI-Thinking-1 #23 · o1 unranked
Pick MAI-Thinking-1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Knowledge
+5.8 difference
Inst. Following
+7.2 difference
MAI-Thinking-1
o1
N/A
$15 / $60
N/A
98 t/s
N/A
32.29s
256K
200K
Pick MAI-Thinking-1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
MAI-Thinking-1 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 65 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
MAI-Thinking-1 gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o1.
MAI-Thinking-1 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 65 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 84.2% and 75.7%.
o1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.7 versus 69.9. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 92.2 versus 85. MAI-Thinking-1 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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