Model comparison
Codestral vs MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Codestral scores higher in 0 categories and MiMo-V2.5 in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiMo-V2.5 leads 43.9 to 27.3.
- MiMo-V2.5 is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $0.90 for Codestral.
- MiMo-V2.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 256K.
- MiMo-V2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Xiaomi |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 43.4 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2026-04-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 8K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $0.14 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | $0.28 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding MiMo-V2.5 leads
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), MiMo-V2.5: 43.9 (#81)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | 513.95 |
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1438 |
| SciCode | — | 43.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1469 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning MiMo-V2.5 leads
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), MiMo-V2.5: 28.6 (#101)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 3.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1450 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.5: 36.8 (#163)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 16% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1436 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.5: 40.8 (#115)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1460 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.5: 39.8 (#54)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1247 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.5: 51.9 (#99)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1468 |
| LMArena French | — | 1447 |
| LMArena German | — | 1421 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1306 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1363 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1416 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.5: 75.5 (#60)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1434 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.5: 44.2 (#73)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1445 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.5: 61.6 (#86)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1393 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1445 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than MiMo-V2.5?
MiMo-V2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Codestral 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; Codestral lists at $0.30 and $0.90.
Is Codestral or MiMo-V2.5 better for coding?
MiMo-V2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.9 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
MiMo-V2.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and MiMo-V2.5 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and MiMo-V2.5 has 23.