Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash
MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.5 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 0 categories and MiMo-V2.6-Flash in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads 36.5 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 39.2% for Magistral Medium and 51.3% for MiMo-V2.6-Flash.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Xiaomi |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 48.5 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2026-09-21 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 16K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.14 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $0.28 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 53.4 (#30)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | 51.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1504 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1637 |
Reasoning MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 36.5 (#66)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.3% | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1482 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
Math MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 51.9 (#52)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | 1468 |
| ProofBench | — | 63% |
Knowledge MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 42.2 (#99)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1501 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Magistral Medium: —, MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 40.5 (#47)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1259 |
Multilingual MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 54.0 (#51)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1434 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | 1511 |
| LMArena French | 1267 | 1475 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1409 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | 1456 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | — |
Instruction Following MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 76.8 (#35)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1463 |
Long Context MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 44.8 (#57)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1463 |
Writing & Preference MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 63.1 (#67)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1455 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1400 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1451 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.5 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium 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; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Magistral Medium or MiMo-V2.6-Flash better for coding?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.4 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and MiMo-V2.6-Flash share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and MiMo-V2.6-Flash has 19.