Gemini 3.8 Flash vs MiMo-V2.6-Pro

  • Gemini 3.8 Flash rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1498 against 1491.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $0.82 / $4.13 for Gemini 3.8 Flash.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro has the longer context window: 1.1M tokens against 1M.
  • On the 11 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.8 Flash wins 4 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro wins 7 (Gemini 3.8 Flash: Finance Agent, Finance Index, MedCode).
LMArena text rating over time
14801485149014951500Sep 25Oct 1Oct 8Oct 15Oct 22
LatestMiMo-V2.6-Pro 1491

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMiMo-V2.6-Pro
The model
LabGoogleXiaomi
Released2026-09-022026-09-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M1.1M
Input, per 1M tokens$0.82$0.43
Output, per 1M tokens$4.13$0.87
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1498#8 of 3511491#11 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1585#36 of 1241625#23 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1315#7 of 1461263#53 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1508#17 of 3461533#5 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1532#4 of 3391500#16 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1489#8 of 3491466#20 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1509#9 of 3511511#8 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1492#11 of 3511491#12 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score55.95%#15 of 2757.81%#14 of 27
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal19.70%#31 of 5531.31%#21 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects80.00%#23 of 85—
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works78.65%#29 of 11585.22%#15 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests38.65%#22 of 2848.79%#16 of 28
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination89.48%#3 of 143—
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools65.76%#5 of 3164.26%#10 of 31
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks60.46%#9 of 3157.85%#12 of 31
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions32.12%#21 of 7632.39%#19 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks69.78%#14 of 2872.14%#8 of 28
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research38.94%#34 of 8547.12%#15 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes48.13%#31 of 10744.97%#39 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not94.44%#4 of 138—
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering90.22%#5 of 138—
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text89.08%#4 of 93—
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal8.57%#19 of 422.86%#33 of 42

Add models in the compare tool. Vals Index: Gemini 3.8 Flash 55.95%, MiMo-V2.6-Pro 57.81%.

Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3.8 Flash or MiMo-V2.6-Pro?

Gemini 3.8 Flash rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1498 against 1491. MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $0.82 / $4.13 for Gemini 3.8 Flash. MiMo-V2.6-Pro has the longer context window: 1.1M tokens against 1M. On the 11 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.8 Flash wins 4 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro wins 7 (Gemini 3.8 Flash: Finance Agent, Finance Index, MedCode).

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or MiMo-V2.6-Pro?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $0.82 / $4.13 for Gemini 3.8 Flash.

Sources

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