o4 Mini vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash
MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads o4 Mini on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 37.9 to 16.7, and MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs 15.7x less per output token ($0.28 vs $4.40 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 40 benchmarks have a result for both.
o4 Mini or MiMo-V2.6-Flash: which to pick
Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash has a coding score, 54.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; o4 Mini has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 40
- o4 Mini only
- 58
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash only
- 26
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
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, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads, 37.9 against 16.7.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only o4 Mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 74.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only o4 Mini has a AIME result, 83.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only o4 Mini has a MMLU Pro result, 80.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only o4 Mini has a Design Arena: websites result, 985.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash has a Vals Index result, 54.8%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
MiMo-V2.6-Flash takes 1.05M tokens against 200K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
o4 Mini $0.0033, MiMo-V2.6-Flash $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- o4 Mini not benchmarked, MiMo-V2.6-Flash 54.7 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 21.8 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena Text: Chinese: o4 Mini 1354 against MiMo-V2.6-Flash 1509, 25.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- o4 Mini $4.40 against MiMo-V2.6-Flash $0.28 per million output tokens, 15.7x apart.
- Context window
- o4 Mini takes 200K 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 | o4 Mini | Bars | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 2 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 6 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 5 | ||
| General | 0 | 24 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 40 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02
| Benchmark | o4 Mini | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 72.0% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 64.6% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | 33.9% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1634 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 82.2% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 24.2% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 79.0% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 40.9% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.5% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 47.7% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 76.4% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.4% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 85.9% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 51.3% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.2% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| GSO-Bench | 3.6% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| WeirdML | 52.6% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1244.2 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1368 | 1499 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1367 | 1497 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1648 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1641 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1596 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| SciCode | 10.8% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | o4 Mini | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 16.7 | 37.9 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.5 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | o4 Mini | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 4.2% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 56.3% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 28.5% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.0% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 13.3% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 65.5% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.3% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 4.3% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 31.7% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 55.6% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| METR time horizons | 63.9% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | 53.2% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
| Benchmark | o4 Mini | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 74.5% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 21.6% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 79.7% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 78.4% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 16.5% | 35.1% | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 79.6% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI | 58.7% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 6.1% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| SimpleBench | 38.7% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Chess puzzles | 22.0% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 5.0% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| VPCT | 57.5% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1351 | 1475 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1343 | 1496 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1366 | 1493 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1197 | 1276 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1234 | 1283 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 67.6% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | o4 Mini | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 83.7% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 94.2% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 93.4% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| AA Math Index | 90.7 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 90.7% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 81.7% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 36.1% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 4.9% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 63.0% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| MATH level 5 | 97.8% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1389 | 1476 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1379 | 1478 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | o4 Mini | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 80.6% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 79.2% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 59.0% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.8% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 64.8% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 96.0% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 33.8% | 41.1% | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.2% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 19.6% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| GeoBench | 64.0% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1354 | 1462 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1361 | 1439 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1350 | 1441 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1325 | 1454 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 28.1% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | o4 Mini | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 985 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 983 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1003 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 990 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 854 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 976 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index024
| Benchmark | o4 Mini | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 54.8% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.6% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 41.1% | 43.5% | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 69.1% | 85.3% | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| IFBench | 68.7% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 61.0% | 74.3% | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| DTBench | 77.6% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMCA | 26.5% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 77.8% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 75.0% | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text | 1353 | 1453 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1320 | 1452 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1294 | 1403 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Vision | 1194 | 1256 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: English | 1367 | 1476 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1337 | 1431 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1354 | 1509 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: German | 1336 | 1458 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1308 | 1359 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1312 | 1425 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: French | 1364 | 1480 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1346 | 1453 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1334 | 1409 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1358 | 1455 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1350 | 1447 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1315 | 1459 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1316 | 1424 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1308 | 1415 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1200 | 1269 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1218 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1197 | 1270 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1199 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1204 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1218 | Not measured | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1166 | 1231 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | o4 Mini | 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 | OpenAI o4 Mini | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Xiaomi |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | April 16, 2025 | September 21, 2026 |
| Context window | 200K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.10 | $0.14 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.40 | $0.28 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 54.7 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is o4 Mini better than MiMo-V2.6-Flash for coding?
Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash has a coding score, 54.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; o4 Mini has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, o4 Mini or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
o4 Mini costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 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, o4 Mini or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks is the o4 Mini vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash comparison based on?
40 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. o4 Mini's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and MiMo-V2.6-Flash's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.