# Flint vs MAI-Thinking-1

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/flint-40b-a2-5b-vs-mai-thinking-1
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Flint and MAI-Thinking-1 share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Flint | MAI-Thinking-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Recursive | Microsoft |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 52.91 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 13 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 54.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.2% | 73.5% | Flint |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 80.3% | 87.7% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 55.3 (Estimated · #60/187)

| Benchmark | Flint | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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
- Flint public-lane score: 94.7 (#3/152)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#4/152)

| Benchmark | Flint | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 89.2% | 85% | Flint |
| IFEval | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 81.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Flint | 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 Flint and MAI-Thinking-1?

Not yet. The models share only 3 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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## Explore More

- [Flint profile](/models/flint-40b-a2-5b)
- [MAI-Thinking-1 profile](/models/mai-thinking-1)
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