Sonar Reasoning Pro vs MiMo-V2.5
Updated October 21, 2026. 1 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Only MiMo-V2.5 has a coding score, 50.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Sonar Reasoning Pro has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 1
- Sonar Reasoning Pro only
- 0
- MiMo-V2.5 only
- 79
- Like-for-like categories
- 1 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, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only MiMo-V2.5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 leads, 21.8 against 11.8.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only MiMo-V2.5 has a AA Agentic Index result, 15.8.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only MiMo-V2.5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 81.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only MiMo-V2.5 has a MMLU Pro result, 82.9%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only MiMo-V2.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1266.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 takes 1.05M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiMo-V2.5
Sonar Reasoning Pro $0.0060, MiMo-V2.5 $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only MiMo-V2.5 has the number, $0.01.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Sonar Reasoning Pro not benchmarked, MiMo-V2.5 50.0 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Intelligence, 10.0 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- AA Intelligence Index: Sonar Reasoning Pro 11.8 against MiMo-V2.5 21.8, 10.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Sonar Reasoning Pro $8.00 against MiMo-V2.5 $0.336 per million output tokens, 23.8x apart.
- Context window
- Sonar Reasoning Pro takes 128K tokens, MiMo-V2.5 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 | Sonar Reasoning Pro | Bars | MiMo-V2.5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 1 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index14 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Sonar Reasoning Pro | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1438 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 56.8 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.5% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.0% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 42.2% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 14.2% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 60.7% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 43.9% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 41.7% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 514.0 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1469 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1463 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1425 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1429 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Sonar Reasoning Pro | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 11.8 | 21.8 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Sonar Reasoning Pro | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 15.8 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 36.7% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 7.8% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 9.1% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 55.1% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 90.6% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Sonar Reasoning Pro | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 81.6% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 80.0% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 84.9% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 27.2% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1450 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1459 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1461 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1269 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1262 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Sonar Reasoning Pro | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | Not measured | 16.0% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1436 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1451 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Sonar Reasoning Pro | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 82.9% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 78.9% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 59.9% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.8% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 59.3% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 31.9% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1440 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1432 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1425 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1432 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Sonar Reasoning Pro | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1266 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1258 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1249 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1249 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1216 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1260 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1179 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1141 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index29 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Sonar Reasoning Pro | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 43.3% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 72.2% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 52.8% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 67.1% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 73.0% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1428 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1435 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1393 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1247 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1447 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1405 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1469 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1421 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1306 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1361 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1448 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1414 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1396 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1413 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1445 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1445 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1409 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1399 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1259 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1326 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1256 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1226 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1189 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1230 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Sonar Reasoning Pro | MiMo-V2.5 | 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-V2.5 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
MiMo-V2.5 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
MiMo-V2.5 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 | Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Perplexity | Xiaomi |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | March 7, 2025 | April 22, 2026 |
| Context window | 128K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.168 |
| Output $/Mtok | $8.00 | $0.336 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 50.0 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.01 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Sonar Reasoning Pro better than MiMo-V2.5 for coding?
Only MiMo-V2.5 has a coding score, 50.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Sonar Reasoning Pro has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, Sonar Reasoning Pro or MiMo-V2.5?
Sonar Reasoning Pro costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.5 costs $0.168 and $0.336. Cost per solved task is known for MiMo-V2.5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Sonar Reasoning Pro or MiMo-V2.5?
MiMo-V2.5, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Sonar Reasoning Pro vs MiMo-V2.5 comparison based on?
1 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Sonar Reasoning Pro's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and MiMo-V2.5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.