Model comparison
Codestral vs MiMo-V2.6-Pro
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 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-V2.6-Pro in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads 55.5 to 27.3.
- Codestral is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $0.43 / $0.87 for MiMo-V2.6-Pro.
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 256K.
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Xiaomi |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 50.3 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2026-09-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 8K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $0.43 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | $0.87 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 55.5 (#23)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | 1,158 |
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1629 |
| SciCode | — | 60.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1534 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 37.5 (#35)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 59.5% |
Reasoning MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 43.1 (#50)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 26.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1512 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 54.5 (#45)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 70% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1494 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 43.5 (#92)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1543 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 40.8 (#43)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1264 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 56.9 (#14)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1474 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1529 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1480 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 78.2 (#12)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1493 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 46.0 (#27)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1501 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 66.8 (#33)
| Benchmark | Codestral | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1492 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1468 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1464 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than MiMo-V2.6-Pro?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Codestral or MiMo-V2.6-Pro?
Codestral is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.6-Pro lists at $0.43 and $0.87.
Is Codestral or MiMo-V2.6-Pro better for coding?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and MiMo-V2.6-Pro share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and MiMo-V2.6-Pro has 19.