# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Qwen3.8 Max

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-qwen3-8-max
- Last updated: September 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8 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

- Qwen3.8 Max leads overall 71.76 to 52.01.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 50.4 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 67.3 for Qwen3.8 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Pro in Coding, with scores of 52.8% and 67.7%.
- Qwen3.8 Max also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 52.01 | 71.76 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 60 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 50.4 (Estimated · #51/153)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.3 (Supported · #9/153)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 70.2% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 52.4% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 27.3% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 19.4% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 67.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 50.5 (Estimated · #58/152)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 60.8 (Supported · #20/152)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | 67.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 56.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 15.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 87.4 (#5/48)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 95.2% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 97.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 91.3% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 24.0% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | Coming soon | 49.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 69.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 93.5% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 63.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 88.7% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 82.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 86.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 66.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 52.4 (Estimated · #66/183)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 68.8 (Supported · #17/183)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | 92.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | 92.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 93.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: MAI-Thinking-1
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/123)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 90.7 (#18/123)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | 82.8% | MAI-Thinking-1 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3.8 Max | 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 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 50.4 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 67.3 for Qwen3.8 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 Qwen3.8 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 60 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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