# Gemma 3 27B vs MAI-Thinking-1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemma 3 27B and MAI-Thinking-1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemma-3-27b-vs-mai-thinking-1
- Last updated: September 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Gemma 3 27B and MAI-Thinking-1.

## Summary

- Gemma 3 27B 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 | Gemma 3 27B | MAI-Thinking-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Microsoft |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 32K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 28.75 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 0 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 3 27B public-lane score: 8 (Estimated · #116/117)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 3 27B public-lane score: 12.6 (Estimated · #141/143)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 3 27B public-lane score: 27.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 3 27B public-lane score: 31.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 3 27B public-lane score: 24.5 (Estimated · #163/169)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | 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 |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 31% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 3 27B public-lane score: 34.3 (#110/124)
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 95.4 (#1/124)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 85% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 3 27B public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | 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

### Can I compare Gemma 3 27B 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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