# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Particle-1

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-particle-1
- Last updated: October 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: MAI-Thinking-1 and Particle-1 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.
- Particle-1 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Particle-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Particle AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 53.02 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.25 / $1.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

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

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

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

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 72.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

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

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 55.2 (Estimated · #58/179)
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | 90.4% | Particle-1 |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#4/157)
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

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

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 81.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Particle-1 | 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 Particle-1?

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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