Claude Opus 5.5 vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Updated October 21, 2026. 63 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Claude Opus 5.5 for coding: it scores 92.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 61.9 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash.
Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash when output tokens cost 71.4x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 1M tokens.
- Shared results
- 63
- Claude Opus 5.5 only
- 44
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash only
- 3
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 scores 92.2 against 61.9.
2 and 1 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 leads, 57.6 against 37.9.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Opus 5.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1335.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 leads, 70.2% against 54.8%.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
MiMo-V2.6-Flash takes 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Claude Opus 5.5 $0.014, MiMo-V2.6-Flash $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 5.5 92.2 from 2 benchmarks, MiMo-V2.6-Flash 61.9 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Intelligence, 19.7 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- IOI (Vals AI): Claude Opus 5.5 95.1% against MiMo-V2.6-Flash 47.7%, 47.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 5.5 $20.00 against MiMo-V2.6-Flash $0.28 per million output tokens, 71.4x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Opus 5.5 takes 1M tokens, MiMo-V2.6-Flash 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Opus 5.5 | Bars | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 14 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 8 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 7 | 0 | ||
| Math | 3 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 5 | 0 | ||
| General | 23 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 61 | 2 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index141
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 96.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1807 | 1634 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 65.2% | 24.2% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.3% | 79.0% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 66.7% | 40.9% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 18.5% | 0.5% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 95.1% | 47.7% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 87.6% | 76.4% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 70.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 30.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 74.6% | 75.4% | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| SciCode | 66.9% | 51.3% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| FrontierCode | 54.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 62.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| MirrorCode | 77.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 2147.4 | 1244.2 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1545 | 1499 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1538 | 1497 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1855 | 1648 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1753 | 1641 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1753 | 1596 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 57.6 | 37.9 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 168.8 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index81
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1316 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1311 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1359 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench research | 85.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 85.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 33.6% | 4.2% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 58.6% | 56.3% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 45.6% | 28.5% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 50.5% | 38.0% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 9.2% | 13.3% | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 75.9% | 65.5% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 79.3% | 69.3% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 47.1% | 4.3% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Vals Science Index | 58.7% | 31.7% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 91.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | 14.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI) | 14.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 73.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 21.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| SpireClimb | 3.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $9,235 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Search | 1213 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 92.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 49.5% | 21.6% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 61.4% | 35.1% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 90.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 98.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 93.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 67.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 71.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| EBR-bench | 71.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1536 | 1475 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1549 | 1496 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1535 | 1493 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1345 | 1276 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1362 | 1283 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 91.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| ProofBench | 100.0% | 63.0% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: math | 1518 | 1476 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1516 | 1478 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 49.8% | 41.1% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 72.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1524 | 1462 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1509 | 1439 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1518 | 1441 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1494 | 1454 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1335 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1390 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1457 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1397 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1477 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1390 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1332 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench design | 86.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index230
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 70.2% | 54.8% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LiveBench data analysis | 80.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 70.6% | 67.6% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 45.8% | 43.5% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 91.4% | 85.3% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 84.7% | 74.3% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| DTBench | 98.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LMCA | 68.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 83.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1516 | 1453 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1537 | 1452 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1535 | 1403 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Vision | 1321 | 1256 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1519 | 1476 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1507 | 1431 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1582 | 1509 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1458 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1534 | 1359 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1425 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1493 | 1480 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1508 | 1453 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1517 | 1409 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1455 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1501 | 1447 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1532 | 1459 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1532 | 1424 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1515 | 1415 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1317 | 1269 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1326 | 1270 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1320 | 1231 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Xiaomi |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | September 22, 2026 | September 21, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $4.00 | $0.14 |
| Output $/Mtok | $20.00 | $0.28 |
| Coding index | 92.2 | 61.9 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than MiMo-V2.6-Flash for coding?
Pick Claude Opus 5.5 for coding: it scores 92.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 61.9 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash. Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash when output tokens cost 71.4x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 1M tokens.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4.00 per million input tokens and $20.00 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs $0.14 and $0.28. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 5.5 or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 5.5 vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash comparison based on?
63 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Opus 5.5's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and MiMo-V2.6-Flash's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.