# Gemini 3 Flash vs MAI-Thinking-1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3 Flash and MAI-Thinking-1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-flash-vs-mai-thinking-1
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Gemini 3 Flash and MAI-Thinking-1.

## Summary

- Gemini 3 Flash and MAI-Thinking-1 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3 Flash | MAI-Thinking-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Microsoft |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 62.96 | 52.27 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 11 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.50 / $3.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 28 (Supported · #139/151)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #53/151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Claw-Eval | 49.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 56.63% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 11.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 53.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 44.2 (Supported · #113/183)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #60/183)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Vibe Code Bench | 20.20% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 75.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46.0% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 75.8 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 59.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 57.8 (Supported · #47/181)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 53.3 (Estimated · #68/181)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 88.6% | 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 |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 31% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 66 (#66/120)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/120)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 85% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 50.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 35.640% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.167% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 97% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 84.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Gemini 3 Flash and MAI-Thinking-1 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

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