Model comparison

MiMo-V2.6-Pro vs o4-mini

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.7 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi

46.7

Rank #55 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #119 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores higher in 7 categories and o4-mini in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads 66.9 to 54.2.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper at $0.43 / $0.87 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o4-mini.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

MiMo-V2.6-Pro and o4-mini specifications
MiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
ProviderXiaomiOpenAI
Noometry Index46.741.6
Released2026-09-222025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output131K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.43$1.10
Output $ / M tokens$0.87$4.40
Results tracked1460

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Category by category

Coding MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 53.2 (#27), o4-mini: 41.6 (#110)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
LMArena Coding15381369
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
LMArena WebDev1618—
GSO—3.6%
WeirdML—52.6%
CadEval—62%
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: —, o4-mini: 32.3 (#57)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 30.4 (#76), o4-mini: 24.6 (#143)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
LMArena Hard Prompts15111351
ARC-AGI-2—6.1%
SimpleBench—38.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—58.7%
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—26%
EnigmaEval—9.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—77.6%
LMCA—26.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.63
ForecastBench—61.8

Math o4-mini leads

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 37.9 (#91), o4-mini: 40.2 (#79)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
LMArena Math14971390
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.7%
Omni-MATH—72%
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—24.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge Too close to call

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 43.0 (#85), o4-mini: 43.5 (#83)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
LMArena Expert15481344
GPQA Diamond—79.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—18.1%
SimpleQA Verified—19.6%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%

Multimodal Too close to call

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 40.2 (#40), o4-mini: 39.5 (#46)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
LMArena Vision12651194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 57.0 (#15), o4-mini: 47.2 (#149)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
LMArena Non-English14741336
LMArena Chinese15321355
LMArena Russian14811334
LMArena French—1362
LMArena German—1336
LMArena Japanese—1308
LMArena Korean—1313
LMArena Spanish—1346

Instruction Following MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 78.2 (#10), o4-mini: 75.4 (#63)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
LMArena Instruction Following14901321
IFEval—92.8%

Long Context Too close to call

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 46.0 (#26), o4-mini: 45.5 (#31)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
LMArena Longer Query15001315
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%

Writing & Preference MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 66.9 (#32), o4-mini: 54.2 (#148)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-Proo4-mini
LMArena Text14911353
LMArena Creative Writing14651294
LMArena Multi-Turn14631350
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is MiMo-V2.6-Pro better than o4-mini?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.7 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2.6-Pro or o4-mini?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.43 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens; o4-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.

Is MiMo-V2.6-Pro or o4-mini better for coding?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.2 versus 41.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do MiMo-V2.6-Pro and o4-mini share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiMo-V2.6-Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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