# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick MAI-Thinking-1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- MAI-Thinking-1 leads overall 52.27 to 48.34.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 94.7 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 78 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 46% and 51.5%.
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 52.27 | 48.34 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #53/151)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 44.4 (Estimated · #102/151)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | 51.5% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1397 | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 35.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 25.9% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 26.9% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 42.65% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #60/183)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 47.3 (Estimated · #90/183)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | 73.4% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | 49.5% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | 51.5% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 29.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 50.1 (#37/48)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.3% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 58.9% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.0% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 69 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 53.3 (Estimated · #68/181)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 46.5 (Estimated · #109/181)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | 86% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | 85.2% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 21.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/120)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 78 (#55/120)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 71.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.5% | 92.7% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.9% | 83.6% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MAI-Thinking-1 or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

MAI-Thinking-1 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 94.7 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 78 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

### 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 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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