# Lightning v3.1 Pro vs MAI-Thinking-1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Lightning v3.1 Pro and MAI-Thinking-1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/lightning-v3-1-pro-vs-mai-thinking-1
- Last updated: September 18, 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 Lightning v3.1 Pro and MAI-Thinking-1.

## Summary

- Lightning v3.1 Pro 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 | Lightning v3.1 Pro | MAI-Thinking-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Smallest AI | Microsoft |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | N/A | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 50.84 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 0 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Lightning v3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 49.9 (Estimated · #60/154)

| Benchmark | Lightning v3.1 Pro | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 46% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Lightning v3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 50 (Estimated · #62/154)

| Benchmark | Lightning v3.1 Pro | 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
- Lightning v3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Lightning v3.1 Pro | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Lightning v3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #71/184)

| Benchmark | Lightning v3.1 Pro | 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
- Lightning v3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 95.4 (#1/124)

| Benchmark | Lightning v3.1 Pro | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 85% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Lightning v3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Lightning v3.1 Pro | 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 Lightning v3.1 Pro 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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## Explore More

- [Lightning v3.1 Pro profile](/models/lightning-v3-1-pro)
- [MAI-Thinking-1 profile](/models/mai-thinking-1)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
- [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)