Crouton Alpha vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Updated November 14, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- No data
- Coding
- 54.8
- Overall
- 55.9
- Output $/M
- $0.28
Crouton Alpha or MiMo-V2.6-Flash: which to pick
Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash has a coding score, 54.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Crouton Alpha has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
No benchmark has tested both yet. Crouton Alpha has none yet; MiMo-V2.6-Flash on LMArena WebDev, Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) and Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI). Compare them on price and context instead.
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
No call
Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash has a AA Intelligence Index result, 26.7.
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 1.05M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Crouton Alpha
Crouton Alpha $0.0000, MiMo-V2.6-Flash $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Crouton Alpha not benchmarked, MiMo-V2.6-Flash 54.8 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
- Widest single gap
- None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
- Output price
- Crouton Alpha Free against MiMo-V2.6-Flash $0.28 per million output tokens.
- Context window
- Crouton Alpha takes 1.05M tokens, MiMo-V2.6-Flash 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index19 boards measured
| Benchmark | Crouton Alpha | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1638 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash 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 |
| SciCode | Not measured | 51.3% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 22.7% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| FrontierCode 2.0 | Not measured | 21.6% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1244.2 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1497 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1493 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1654 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1637 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1593 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| GameBench 2 | Not measured | 59.0 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | Not measured | 16.1% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board measured
| Benchmark | Crouton Alpha | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 26.7 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards measured
| Benchmark | Crouton Alpha | 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 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards measured
| Benchmark | Crouton Alpha | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 21.6% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 35.1% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| HLE-Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 13.7% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| CritPt v2, hard subset (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 29.5% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1468 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1497 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1488 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1266 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1288 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards measured
| Benchmark | Crouton Alpha | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | Not measured | 63.0% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1467 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1481 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards measured
| Benchmark | Crouton Alpha | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 41.1% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| AA-Omniscience | Not measured | -10.8 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1455 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1445 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1451 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1451 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index29 boards measured
| Benchmark | Crouton Alpha | 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) | Not measured | 83.3% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.3% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 74.3% | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| GDPval-AA | Not measured | 1615 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1451 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1445 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1402 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1260 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1473 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1430 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1516 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1461 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1362 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1411 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1474 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1462 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1415 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1441 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1443 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1455 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1418 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1414 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1274 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1346 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1273 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1236 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1236 | Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 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
Crouton Alpha costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Crouton Alpha costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Crouton Alpha 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 | Crouton Alpha | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Stealth | Xiaomi |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | November 3, 2026 | September 21, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | Free | $0.14 |
| Output $/Mtok | Free | $0.28 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 54.8 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Crouton Alpha better than MiMo-V2.6-Flash for coding?
Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash has a coding score, 54.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Crouton Alpha has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, Crouton Alpha or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
Crouton Alpha costs Free per million input tokens and Free 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, Crouton Alpha or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.
Has any benchmark tested both Crouton Alpha and MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
No benchmark has tested both yet. Crouton Alpha has none yet; MiMo-V2.6-Flash on LMArena WebDev, Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) and Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI). Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of November 14, 2026.