# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MAI-Thinking-1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-mistral-medium-3-5-128b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: MAI-Thinking-1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Mistral |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 52.27 | 48.95 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $1.50 / $7.50 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #53/151)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 27.4 (Supported · #141/151)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 39.10% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 39.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #60/183)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 41.1 (Estimated · #136/183)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | 77.6% | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 66.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 55.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 68 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 53.3 (Estimated · #68/181)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 42 (Supported · #131/181)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 34.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 75.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/120)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 83.7 (#47/120)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between MAI-Thinking-1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, 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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