# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Qwen3.7 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3.7 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-qwen3-7-max
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.7 Max 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

- Qwen3.7 Max leads overall 68.56 to 52.27.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 53.3 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 62.4 for Qwen3.7 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 46% and 69.7%.
- Qwen3.7 Max also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.7 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 52.27 | 68.56 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #53/151)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 42.8 (Supported · #110/151)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | 69.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 64.3% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 76.4% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 47.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 64.27% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 61.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #60/183)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 49.5 (Supported · #77/183)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | 80.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | 60.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | 69.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78.3% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 68.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 74.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 13.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 53.3 (Estimated · #68/181)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 62.4 (Supported · #28/181)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | 89.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 41.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 73.6% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: MAI-Thinking-1
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/120)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 91.1 (#16/120)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | 79.1% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 100 (#1/12)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 87% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.0% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 86.5% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 82.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.9% | 97.1% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 44.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MAI-Thinking-1 or Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3.7 Max?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 53.3 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 62.4 for Qwen3.7 Max.

### 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 Qwen3.7 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.7 Max currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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