Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
MAI-Thinking-1
65
o3-mini
55
Verified leaderboard positions: MAI-Thinking-1 #23 · o3-mini unranked
Pick MAI-Thinking-1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o3-mini only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Coding
+21.7 difference
Knowledge
+7.3 difference
Inst. Following
+8.9 difference
MAI-Thinking-1
o3-mini
N/A
$1.1 / $4.4
N/A
160 t/s
N/A
7.12s
256K
200K
Pick MAI-Thinking-1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o3-mini only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
MAI-Thinking-1 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 65 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
MAI-Thinking-1's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 71 against 49.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 73.5% to 49.3%. o3-mini does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
MAI-Thinking-1 gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o3-mini.
MAI-Thinking-1 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 65 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 73.5% and 49.3%.
o3-mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 69.9. 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 49.3. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o3-mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.9 versus 85. MAI-Thinking-1 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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