# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 53.17 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 3 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v3 | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | 69.6% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 54.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 55.7 (Estimated · #55/181)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#3/128)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 81.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B | 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

### Is there enough evidence to pick between MAI-Thinking-1 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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