# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Qwen3.8-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3.8-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-qwen3-8-27b
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8-27B 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

- Qwen3.8-27B leads overall 55.26 to 51.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 95.4 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 83.2 for Qwen3.8-27B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Pro in Coding, with scores of 52.8% and 61.7%.
- Qwen3.8-27B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 55.26 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 33 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 61.2 (Supported · #18/117)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 33.4% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 42.9% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 64.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 58.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 48.7 (Supported · #45/142)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | 90.3% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | 61.7% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 42.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 42.2% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 82.6% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 78.7 (#8/27)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 80.9 (#11/50)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 65.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 62.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.1% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 85.9% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 49.2 (Supported · #63/168)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | 89.2% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | 89.2% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 30.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 30.8% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.9% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: MAI-Thinking-1
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 95.4 (#1/124)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 83.2 (#45/124)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | 79.5% | MAI-Thinking-1 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8-27B | 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

### Which is better overall, MAI-Thinking-1 or Qwen3.8-27B?

Qwen3.8-27B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3.8-27B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 95.4 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 83.2 for Qwen3.8-27B.

### 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 Qwen3.8-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8-27B currently has 33 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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