# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B 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

- Qwen3.5 397B leads overall 56.44 to 52.27.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 94.7 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 46% and 52.5%.
- MAI-Thinking-1 also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Overall Score | 52.27 | 56.44 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #53/151)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 48.2 (Estimated · #77/151)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | 52.5% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 56.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 68.4% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 36.3% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 46.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 46.76% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #60/183)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 52.4 (Estimated · #56/183)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | 83.6% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | 76.2% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | 50.9% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 63 (#27/48)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 59.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 53.3 (Estimated · #68/181)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 51.6 (Estimated · #80/181)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | 88.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | 87.8% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.9% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 28.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/120)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 0 (#120/120)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 69.7 (#5/12)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 74.2 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.5% | 93.3% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.9% | 87.9% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 94.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MAI-Thinking-1 or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3.5 397B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 94.7 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.

### 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 Qwen3.5 397B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5 397B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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