# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Muse Spark

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

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

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

## Summary

- Muse Spark leads overall 68.39 to 52.27.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 73.4 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 55.3 for Muse Spark.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 46% and 59%.
- Muse Spark also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Spark |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Meta |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 52.27 | 68.39 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 24 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #53/151)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 58.8 (Supported · #31/151)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | 59% | Muse Spark |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 91.5% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 43.5% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 63.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #60/183)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 59.2 (Supported · #28/183)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | 77.4% | Muse Spark |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | 52.4% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 19.67% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 77.5 (#14/48)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 33.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 45.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 42.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 53.3 (Estimated · #68/181)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 65.7 (Supported · #23/181)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | 89.5% | Muse Spark |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 50.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/120)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 92.9 (#8/120)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 55.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 39.000% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 14.600% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MAI-Thinking-1 or Muse Spark?

Muse Spark is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MAI-Thinking-1 and Muse Spark?

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 73.4 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 55.3 for Muse Spark.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Muse Spark cover on BenchLM?

Muse Spark currently has 24 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [MAI-Thinking-1 vs Muse Spark 1.1](/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-muse-spark-1-1)
- [Muse Spark vs Muse Spark 1.1](/compare/muse-spark-vs-muse-spark-1-1)

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