Microsoft Foundry exposes MAI-Thinking-1 through model ID MAI-Thinking-1. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
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Quick Start
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MAI-Thinking-1— see the documentation for request format.
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About MAI-Thinking-1
MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft AI's flagship reasoning model, built from scratch on enterprise-grade commercially licensed data without third-party distillation. The sparse mixture-of-experts model activates about 35B parameters from roughly 1T total parameters, supports a 256K-token context window, and targets frontier reasoning and software engineering work at a mid-weight price point. Microsoft reports 97% on AIME 2025, 94.5% on AIME 2026, 84.2% on GPQA Diamond, 87.7% on LiveCodeBench v6, 73.5% on SWE-bench Verified, and 52.8% on SWE-bench Pro. In a 1,276-task Surge blind side-by-side evaluation, it narrowly beat Claude Sonnet 4.6 but trailed Claude Opus 4.6.