Model comparison

MiMo-V2.5-Pro vs Phi-4

MiMo-V2.5-Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.8 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Phi-4 costs 6.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiMo-V2.5-Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

MiMo-V2.5-Pro Xiaomi

44.8

Rank #70 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

30.9

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. MiMo-V2.5-Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Phi-4 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiMo-V2.5-Pro leads 65.5 to 40.7.
  • Phi-4 is cheaper at $0.07 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.43 / $0.87 for MiMo-V2.5-Pro.
  • MiMo-V2.5-Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

MiMo-V2.5-Pro and Phi-4 specifications
MiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
ProviderXiaomiMicrosoft
Noometry Index44.830.9
Released2026-04-222024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output131K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.43$0.07
Output $ / M tokens$0.87$0.14
Results tracked2737

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Category by category

Coding MiMo-V2.5-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.5-Pro: 47.0 (#58), Phi-4: 33.8 (#237)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
LMArena Coding15021231
LMArena WebDev1477—
SciCode50.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%
ALE-Bench899.8—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiMo-V2.5-Pro: —, Phi-4: 22.6 (#120)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning MiMo-V2.5-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.5-Pro: 25.9 (#124), Phi-4: 17.0 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts14871220
NYT Connections (extended)34.4%—
CritPt4%—
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
DTBench84.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
LMCA29.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.43
LiveBench—41.6%

Math MiMo-V2.5-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.5-Pro: 38.6 (#84), Phi-4: 19.6 (#279)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
LMArena Math14801246
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
ProofBench22%—
LiveBench Math—42%
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge MiMo-V2.5-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.5-Pro: 41.5 (#100), Phi-4: 32.5 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
LMArena Expert15011203
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual MiMo-V2.5-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.5-Pro: 55.3 (#33), Phi-4: 37.4 (#232)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
LMArena Non-English14491197
LMArena Chinese15071211
LMArena French14891223
LMArena German14551222
LMArena Japanese14181158
LMArena Korean14361151
LMArena Russian14501209
LMArena Spanish14701234

Instruction Following MiMo-V2.5-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.5-Pro: 77.6 (#21), Phi-4: 60.6 (#246)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following14771201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context MiMo-V2.5-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.5-Pro: 45.4 (#38), Phi-4: 36.9 (#221)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query14821217

Writing & Preference MiMo-V2.5-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.5-Pro: 65.5 (#47), Phi-4: 40.7 (#239)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5-ProPhi-4
LMArena Text14651217
LMArena Creative Writing14401182
LMArena Multi-Turn14771206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1493—
EQ-Bench 41208—
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is MiMo-V2.5-Pro better than Phi-4?

MiMo-V2.5-Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.8 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Phi-4 costs 6.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiMo-V2.5-Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2.5-Pro or Phi-4?

Phi-4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.5-Pro lists at $0.43 and $0.87.

Is MiMo-V2.5-Pro or Phi-4 better for coding?

MiMo-V2.5-Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.0 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2.5-Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do MiMo-V2.5-Pro and Phi-4 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiMo-V2.5-Pro has 27 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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