# MAI-Thinking-1

> MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft's first inference model in the MAI series, built for enterprise-scale workloads with strong reasoning, mathematical, and general intelligence capabilities at high throughput.

**ID**: `microsoft/mai-thinking-1`  
**Creator**: microsoft  
**Category**: text  
**Context**: 256K tokens  
**Pricing**: $2.00 / $8.00 per 1M · billed by your provider (BYOK)  
**Released**: 2026-08-01  
**Web page**: https://anyrouter.dev/model/microsoft/mai-thinking-1

**Input modalities**: text  
**Output modalities**: text  

**Capabilities**: chat, streaming, reasoning, function-calling, thinking

## Usage

**Endpoint**: `POST https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions`

```bash
curl https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "microsoft/mai-thinking-1",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Say hi in 3 words."
    }
  ]
}'
```

## Providers

| Provider | Input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| aihubmix-byok | $2.00/M (list) | $8.00/M (list) |

BYOK routes are billed by your own provider key — AnyRouter charges $0. Rates marked (list) are the provider's published list price.

## Source

- Upstream docs: https://aihubmix.com/model/mai-thinking-1