Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
MAI-Thinking-1
65
Ornith-1.0-35B
67
Verified leaderboard positions: MAI-Thinking-1 #26 · Ornith-1.0-35B unranked
Pick Ornith-1.0-35B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Agentic
+18.2 difference
MAI-Thinking-1
Ornith-1.0-35B
N/A
$0 / $0
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
256K
262K
Pick Ornith-1.0-35B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MAI-Thinking-1 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Ornith-1.0-35B has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 67 versus 65. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Ornith-1.0-35B's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 64.2 against 46. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 46% to 64.2%.
Ornith-1.0-35B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for MAI-Thinking-1.
Ornith-1.0-35B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 67 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 46% and 64.2%.
Ornith-1.0-35B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.2 versus 46. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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