Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs MiMo-V2.5

MiMo-V2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.4 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi

43.4

Rank #93 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 2 categories and MiMo-V2.5 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where MiMo-V2.5 leads 39.8 to 26.2.
  • MiMo-V2.5 is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
  • MiMo-V2.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
  • MiMo-V2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and MiMo-V2.5 specifications
Claude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
ProviderAnthropicXiaomi
Noometry Index40.843.4
Released2025-05-222026-04-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K1.05M
Max output64K131K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.14
Output $ / M tokens$15$0.28
Results tracked5823

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), MiMo-V2.5: 43.9 (#81)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
SciCode40%43.1%
LMArena Coding14141469
ALE-Bench655.35513.95
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1438
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), MiMo-V2.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning MiMo-V2.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), MiMo-V2.5: 28.6 (#101)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
CritPt0.3%3.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts13721450
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), MiMo-V2.5: 36.8 (#163)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Math13751436
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench—16%
Omni-MATH60.2%—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), MiMo-V2.5: 40.8 (#115)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Expert13721460
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—

Multimodal MiMo-V2.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), MiMo-V2.5: 39.8 (#54)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Vision11911247
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual MiMo-V2.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), MiMo-V2.5: 51.9 (#99)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Non-English13331404
LMArena Chinese13501468
LMArena French13631447
LMArena German13311421
LMArena Japanese13021306
LMArena Korean12911363
LMArena Russian13551395
LMArena Spanish13571416

Instruction Following MiMo-V2.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), MiMo-V2.5: 75.5 (#60)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Instruction Following13761434
IFEval84%—

Long Context MiMo-V2.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), MiMo-V2.5: 44.2 (#73)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Longer Query13981445
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—

Writing & Preference MiMo-V2.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), MiMo-V2.5: 61.6 (#86)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4MiMo-V2.5
LMArena Text13511428
LMArena Creative Writing13451393
LMArena Multi-Turn13761445
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.4 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4 or MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or MiMo-V2.5 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (43.5 vs 43.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and MiMo-V2.5 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and MiMo-V2.5 has 23.

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