Model comparison
Codestral vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash
MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.5 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads 53.4 to 27.3.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $0.90 for Codestral.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 256K.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Xiaomi |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 48.5 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2026-09-21 |
| 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 | 19 |
Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry
Category by category
Coding MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 53.4 (#30)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1637 |
| SciCode | — | 51.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1504 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 36.5 (#66)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1482 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 51.9 (#52)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 63% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1468 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 42.2 (#99)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1501 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 40.5 (#47)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1259 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 54.0 (#51)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1434 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1511 |
| LMArena French | — | 1475 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1409 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1456 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 76.8 (#35)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1463 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 44.8 (#57)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1463 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 63.1 (#67)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1455 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1400 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1451 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.5 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Codestral or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash 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-V2.6-Flash better for coding?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.4 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and MiMo-V2.6-Flash share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and MiMo-V2.6-Flash has 19.