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Array sensing is increasingly important in the development of microcantilever (MC) sensors, and response consistency is the foundation for MC array sensing. In the present work, we investigated the response consistency of MC array sensing. The responses of two types of commercially available MC arrays were studied under conditions of temperature change, solution replacement and biochemical molecular interaction. For the thermal response, the deflections of both arrays were found to be proportional to temperature, and the responses of the MCs in both arrays were consistent with each other. The thermal response sensitivity for each MC during temperature increase and decrease also showed good consistency. Moreover, the MC array showed good consistency for the response induced by solution replacement. Finally, we also demonstrated that the MC array had good consistency in biochemical detection, exemplified by aflatoxin antibody-antigen binding. The good response consistency makes this technology reliable and accurate for biochemical sensing.