# Claude Sonnet 5 vs MAI-Thinking-1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 5 and MAI-Thinking-1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-5-vs-mai-thinking-1
- Last updated: October 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude Sonnet 5 and MAI-Thinking-1 share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Claude Sonnet 5 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 5 | MAI-Thinking-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 65.92 | 53.3 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 26 | 13 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $10.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 64.8 (Supported · #16/123)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 14.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 57.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 74.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 16% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 58.3 (Supported · #24/146)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 85.2% | 73.5% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 63.2% | 52.8% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 78.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 28.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 61.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 82.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 34.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 82.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 82 (#15/54)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 88.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 65.6 (Supported · #29/177)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 55.6 (Estimated · #53/177)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 57.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | 31.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 80.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 88.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#3/127)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 85% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 74.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 97% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 84.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude Sonnet 5 and MAI-Thinking-1?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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