Is Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1 Down?
Quickest ways to check the current status of microsoft.ai plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.
Last editorial review: 2026-06-02
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What to use if Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1 is down
Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.
Muse Spark (Meta)
8.8Meta's first model from its Superintelligence Lab -- natively multimodal with Contemplating mode for multi-agent reasoning
Claude (Anthropic)
8.5Anthropic's flagship LLM -- Opus 4.8 (launched May 28, 2026) with 1M-token context, high-res vision, user-facing effort control, and a cheaper fast mode (2.5x speed, now 3x cheaper than before). Anthropic says 4.8 is a more effective agentic collaborator with sharper judgment. Standard pricing unchanged at $5/$25 per 1M. Note: 2026-04-04 policy excluded third-party agent harnesses (OpenClaw etc.) from Pro/Max flat-rate, and 2026-04-16 Enterprise pricing dropped bundled tokens
Gemini (Google)
8.3Google's LLM with deep Google Workspace integration, 2M token context window, and native code execution -- Gemini 3.5 Flash GA 2026-05-19 (I/O 2026), Gemini 3.5 Pro rolling out June 2026, Gemini Spark agent + Managed Agents public preview in the Gemini API
MiMo (Xiaomi)
8.3Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 family launched 2026-04-22 -- Pro (1T total / 42B active MoE, 1M context, native vision+audio reasoning), Multimodal base, TTS (3 sub-models: base, VoiceDesign, VoiceClone), and ASR (open-source, English + Chinese + major dialects). Full voice pipeline for the agent era. Extra-charge 1M-context tier removed at launch
Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3)
8.1Tencent's Hy3 Preview launched 2026-04-23 -- 295B total / 21B active MoE, 256K context, open-sourced on HuggingFace under tencent/Hy3-preview. Cheapest frontier-class API at ~1.2 RMB per million input tokens. Integrated into Yuanbao, WeChat, QQ
About Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1
Tier B (7.5/10). Microsoft's first in-house reasoning model -- launched 2026-06-02 at Build as the flagship of seven new MAI models. 35B-active / ~1T-total sparse Mixture-of-Experts, 256K context. AIME 2025 97.0%, matches leading models on SWE-Bench Pro, and beat Claude Sonnet 4.6 in human-preference testing. Available on Microsoft Foundry + OpenRouter / Fireworks / Baseten