# LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse vs MAI-Thinking-1

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/longcat-flash-lite-sparse-vs-mai-thinking-1
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick MAI-Thinking-1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- MAI-Thinking-1 leads overall 52 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HMMT Feb 2026 in Mathematics, with scores of 40.5% and 84.9%.
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MAI-Thinking-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meituan | Microsoft |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Overall Score | null | 52 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 50.3 (Estimated · #50/152)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | 46% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| VITA-Bench | 21.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 45.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 48.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 50.4 (Estimated · #57/151)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | 73.5% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 40.6% | 52.8% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| SWE Multilingual | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | 46.0% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 52.3 (Estimated · #66/183)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | 85% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| CMMLU | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 69.5% | 84.2% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 31% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/123)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 85% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MAI-Thinking-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 65.7% | 94.5% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 40.5% | 84.9% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| IMOAnswerBench | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 97% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse or MAI-Thinking-1?

MAI-Thinking-1 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse cover on BenchLM?

LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse currently has 17 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does MAI-Thinking-1 cover on BenchLM?

MAI-Thinking-1 currently has 14 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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