Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 Flash
MiMo V2.6 Flash
Xiaomi's fast tier: a sparse open model at fourteen cents in and twenty-eight out.
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The read
MiMo V2.6 Flash is the smaller sibling of V2.6 Pro, a sparse model of 309 billion parameters with only 15 billion active per token, published under MIT with a million-token window. It is among the cheapest capable models anywhere, and its coding and terminal scores hold up well against models costing ten times more. Human voters rate it below the Flash models from DeepSeek and Z.ai, so it is best kept on work with a checkable answer.
Where it shines
- Fourteen cents per million input tokens
- MIT licence with a million-token window
- Only 15 billion active parameters, so it serves quickly
Worth knowing first
- Rated below rival Flash models by human voters
- Hosted in China, with the data policy questions that brings
Index score
86.9
Provisional. This score is read from the product's public capability, not from the one-prompt rebuild the fully reviewed entries went through, so treat it as a placing rather than a verdict.
- Rank
- 14 of 73
- Builds
- LLMs
- Category
- Open weights
- Output
- MIT-licensed weights, plus a very cheap API
- Pricing
- Free tier
- Best for
- Cheap, fast coding and agent sub-tasks on open weights
Scores are our own editorial judgement, weighted craft 55, speed 10, control 15 and value 20.
Also worth a look
Full index- 05GLM-5.3 FlashGLM-5.3 FlashProvisionalA fast, MIT-licensed open model that human voters rank beside the big flagships.Open weightsFree tier89.6
- 06Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 ProMiMo V2.6 ProProvisionalThe strongest large open-weights model on the independent index, under MIT, for under a dollar out.Open weightsFree tier89.4
- 07DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek V4.1 FlashProvisionalFrontier-adjacent answers for thirty cents per million input tokens, with the weights under MIT.Open weightsFree tier88.3
