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GPT-5vsMAI-Thinking-1

GPT-5 leads 3 of 4 shared benchmarks. GPT-5 has the larger context window (400K tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
3 – 1
GPT-5 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
94.2446% · —
OpenAI · Microsoft
GPT-5
OpenAI · released 2025-08-07
textvision
Context
400K
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$1.25
Output /1M
$10
Cached /1M
$0.125
Scores
9 · 8 core
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

BenchmarkGPT-5MAI-Thinking-1ΔEdge
Reported by both · 4
SWE-bench Verified74.9% 73.5% +1.4 ptGPT-5
GPQA Diamond86.2% epoch84.2% +2 ptGPT-5
AIME 202594.6% 97% -2.4 ptMAI-Thinking-1
SimpleQA Verified50.1% epoch31% +19.1 ptGPT-5
Only GPT-5 reports · 4
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)22% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)55.4% epochnot reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)91.4% epochnot reported
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)73.6% epochnot reported
Only MAI-Thinking-1 reports · 11
MMLU-Pronot reported85%
AIME 2026not reported94.5%
AdvancedIFnot reported85%
BFCL v3not reported72%
GraphWalks (<=128K)not reported90%
HMMT February 2026not reported84.9%
IFBenchnot reported69%
LiveCodeBench v6not reported87.7%
MultiChallengenot reported53%
SWE-bench Pronot reported52.8%
Terminal-Bench 2.0not reported46%
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-5 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

SpecGPT-5MAI-Thinking-1Edge
Context window400K tokens256K tokensGPT-5
Max output128K tokens64K tokensGPT-5
Input price / 1M$1.25
Output price / 1M$10
Cached input / 1M$0.125
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$11.25
Modalitiestext · visiontextGPT-5
Released2025-08-072026-08-12
Cited benchmark scores915
Reliability

Provider status

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