# MAI-Thinking-1 vs o3-mini

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MAI-Thinking-1 and o3-mini across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-o3-mini
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: MAI-Thinking-1 and o3-mini share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- MAI-Thinking-1 has the larger published context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | o3-mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | OpenAI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 52.27 | 48.06 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $1.10 / $4.40 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #53/151)
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #60/183)
- o3-mini public-lane score: 40.6 (Supported · #140/183)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | 49.3% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | o3-mini | 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)
- o3-mini public-lane score: 42.3 (Supported · #127/181)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | 77.2% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 86.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/120)
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | o3-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 87.3% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between MAI-Thinking-1 and o3-mini?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, 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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- [MAI-Thinking-1 vs o3-pro](/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-o3-pro)
- [o3-mini vs o3-pro](/compare/o3-mini-vs-o3-pro)
- [MAI-Thinking-1 vs o3](/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-o3)
- [o3-mini vs o3](/compare/o3-vs-o3-mini)

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