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GPT-4o minivsMAI-Thinking-1
MAI-Thinking-1 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. MAI-Thinking-1 has the larger context window (256K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 2
MAI-Thinking-1 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
MAI-Thinking-1
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
94.7195% · —
OpenAI · Microsoft
GPT-4o mini
OpenAI · released 2024-07-18
textvision
MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft · released 2026-08-12
text
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
- 64K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 15 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 4 only GPT-4o mini · 13 only MAI-Thinking-1| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | MAI-Thinking-1 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 40.2% ↗ | 84.2% ↗ | -44 pt | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 8.3% ↗epoch | 31% ↗ | -22.7 pt | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Only GPT-4o mini reports · 4 | ||||
| MMLU | 82% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2024 | 8.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 0.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 6.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only MAI-Thinking-1 reports · 13 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 73.5% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 97% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 94.5% ↗ | — | — |
| AdvancedIF | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| BFCL v3 | not reported | 72% ↗ | — | — |
| GraphWalks (<=128K) | not reported | 90% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT February 2026 | not reported | 84.9% ↗ | — | — |
| IFBench | not reported | 69% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | not reported | 87.7% ↗ | — | — |
| MultiChallenge | not reported | 53% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | not reported | 52.8% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not reported | 46% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-4o mini minus MAI-Thinking-1 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | GPT-4o mini | MAI-Thinking-1 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128K tokens | 256K tokens | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Max output | 16K tokens | 64K tokens | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.15 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $0.6 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.075 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.75 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | GPT-4o mini |
| Released | 2024-07-18 | 2026-08-12 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 7 | 15 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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