MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
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- MiMo-V2.6-Pro is a leading open-weights model with high intelligence and reasonable pricing, scoring 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, well above the median of 18.
- It is notably fast at 125 tokens per second, but somewhat verbose, generating 140M tokens during evaluation.
- Pricing is $0.43 per 1M input tokens and $0.87 per 1M output tokens, with a total evaluation cost of $206.66.
- The model supports text, image, speech, and video input, and outputs text, with a 1M token context window (about 1500 pages).
- It has 1.0T total parameters with 42B active, uses a Mixture of Experts architecture, and is released under the MIT license.
- It is a reasoning model, released on September 21, 2026, by Xiaomi, with a time to first token of 2.34 seconds.
- Available via 1 API provider, with open weights on Hugging Face, and performance metrics are compared across open-weights models of similar size.
- The model is competitive in cost for output tokens ($0.87 vs median $1.68) and input ($0.43 vs median $0.45), despite being slightly expensive in cache hit scenarios.
- Key strengths include reasoning, coding, long context, and multimodal capabilities, as highlighted in the report.