# GPT-5 Nano vs MiMo-V2.5

> MiMo-V2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-nano-vs-mimo-v2-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Nano scores higher in 0 categories and MiMo-V2.5 in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiMo-V2.5 leads 61.8 to 39.4.
- GPT-5 Nano is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.14 / $0.28 for MiMo-V2.5.
- MiMo-V2.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 400K.
- MiMo-V2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Xiaomi |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 43.0 |
| Rank | 234 | 89 |
| Context | 400K | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $0.05 | $0.14 |
| Output $/M | $0.40 | $0.28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248)
- MiMo-V2.5: 43.6 (#75)

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1351 | 1469 |
| ALE-Bench | 718.67 | 513.95 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 34.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1438 |
| SciCode | — | 43.1% |
| WeirdML | 38.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99)
- MiMo-V2.5: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 21.8% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 51.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291)
- MiMo-V2.5: 27.8 (#98)

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1329 | 1450 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 2.6% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 62.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 20.7% | — |
| CritPt | — | 3.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 27% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 9% | — |
| DTBench | 62.7% | — |
| LMCA | 7.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 139.39 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.1 | — |

## Math

- GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221)
- MiMo-V2.5: 35.4 (#145)

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 12% | 16% |
| LMArena Math | 1318 | 1436 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 20% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 81.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 54.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 95.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 8.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166)
- MiMo-V2.5: 40.2 (#109)

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1459 |
| GPQA Diamond | 69.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 11.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 67.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102)
- MiMo-V2.5: 39.0 (#53)

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1159 | 1245 |
| VPCT | 37.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167)
- MiMo-V2.5: 52.0 (#96)

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1355 | 1467 |
| LMArena German | 1329 | 1421 |
| LMArena Korean | 1269 | 1363 |
| LMArena Russian | 1296 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1360 | 1412 |
| LMArena French | — | 1447 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1304 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72)
- MiMo-V2.5: 75.7 (#55)

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1306 | 1433 |
| IFEval | 93.2% | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275)
- MiMo-V2.5: 44.1 (#69)

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1313 | 1444 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244)
- MiMo-V2.5: 61.8 (#82)

| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1320 | 1427 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1250 | 1392 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1311 | 1445 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 705 | — |
| WildBench | 80.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-5 Nano better than MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Nano or MiMo-V2.5?

GPT-5 Nano is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.5 lists at $0.14 and $0.28.

### Is GPT-5 Nano or MiMo-V2.5 better for coding?

MiMo-V2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 400K.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Nano and MiMo-V2.5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Nano has 48 scored results on Noometry and MiMo-V2.5 has 23.