MiMo-V2.6-Pro vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1491 against 1480.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro has the longer context window: 1.1M tokens against 1M.
  • On the 5 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, MiMo-V2.6-Pro wins 3 and Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 2 (MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Vibe Code Bench, Tax Agent Bench, Legal Research Bench).
LMArena text rating over time
14601470148014901500Jul 21Aug 13Sep 5Sep 28Oct 22
LatestMiMo-V2.6-Pro 1491Gemini 3.6 Flash 1480

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-ProGemini 3.6 Flash
The model
LabXiaomiGoogle
Released2026-09-212026-07-21
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1.1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$0.43$0.75
Output, per 1M tokens$0.87$3.75
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1491#11 of 3511480#20 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1625#23 of 1241538#49 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1263#53 of 1461299#20 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1533#5 of 3461491#34 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1500#16 of 3391507#11 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1466#20 of 3491466#21 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1511#8 of 3511486#25 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1491#12 of 3511467#31 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score57.81%#14 of 27—
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal31.31%#21 of 55—
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—79.60%#25 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works85.22%#15 of 11564.00%#50 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests48.79%#16 of 28—
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination—88.08%#8 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools64.26%#10 of 31—
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks57.85%#12 of 31—
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions32.39%#19 of 7618.04%#53 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks72.14%#8 of 28—
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research47.12%#15 of 8525.00%#60 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes44.97%#39 of 10753.15%#11 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not—93.43%#7 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering—89.28%#13 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text—88.38%#7 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal2.86%#33 of 424.29%#28 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, MiMo-V2.6-Pro or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1491 against 1480. MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash. MiMo-V2.6-Pro has the longer context window: 1.1M tokens against 1M. On the 5 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, MiMo-V2.6-Pro wins 3 and Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 2 (MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Vibe Code Bench, Tax Agent Bench, Legal Research Bench).

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2.6-Pro or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.

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