# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Sakana Fugu

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: September 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Sakana Fugu 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

- Sakana Fugu leads overall 65 to 51.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 84.2% and 95.5%.
- Sakana Fugu also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Sakana AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | 92.9% | Sakana Fugu |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | 59% | Sakana Fugu |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 70.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 68.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 95.4 (#1/124)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Sakana Fugu | 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 Sakana Fugu?

Sakana Fugu is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### 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 Sakana Fugu cover on BenchLM?

Sakana Fugu currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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## Explore More

- [MAI-Thinking-1 profile](/models/mai-thinking-1)
- [Sakana Fugu profile](/models/sakana-fugu)
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