MiMo-V2.6-Pro vs Kimi K3

  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1491 against 1475.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $0.24 / $11 for Kimi K3.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro has the longer context window: 1.1M tokens against 1M.
  • On the 11 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, MiMo-V2.6-Pro wins 8 and Kimi K3 wins 3 (MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Vals Index, Terminal-Bench 4.0, Vibe Code Bench).
LMArena text rating over time
14601470148014901500Jul 16Aug 9Sep 3Sep 27Oct 22
LatestMiMo-V2.6-Pro 1491Kimi K3 1475

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro
  • Kimi K3
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-ProKimi K3
The model
LabXiaomiMoonshot AI
Released2026-09-212026-07-16
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1.1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$0.43$0.24
Output, per 1M tokens$0.87$10.80
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1491#11 of 3511475#25 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1625#23 of 1241655#17 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1263#53 of 146—
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1533#5 of 3461508#16 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1500#16 of 3391493#20 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1466#20 of 3491456#28 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1511#8 of 3511495#17 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1491#12 of 3511485#16 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score57.81%#14 of 2752.95%#20 of 27
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal31.31%#21 of 5517.17%#34 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—93.40%#8 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works85.22%#15 of 11584.97%#16 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests48.79%#16 of 2828.59%#23 of 28
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination—87.19%#18 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools64.26%#10 of 3160.01%#21 of 31
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks57.85%#12 of 3157.95%#11 of 31
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions32.39%#19 of 7633.37%#15 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks72.14%#8 of 2871.72%#10 of 28
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research47.12%#15 of 8546.15%#16 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes44.97%#39 of 10749.36%#23 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not—92.93%#12 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering—87.97%#22 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text—88.15%#11 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal2.86%#33 of 421.43%#38 of 42

Add models in the compare tool. Vals Index: MiMo-V2.6-Pro 57.81%, Kimi K3 52.95%.

Questions

Which is better, MiMo-V2.6-Pro or Kimi K3?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1491 against 1475. MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $0.24 / $11 for Kimi K3. MiMo-V2.6-Pro has the longer context window: 1.1M tokens against 1M. On the 11 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, MiMo-V2.6-Pro wins 8 and Kimi K3 wins 3 (MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Vals Index, Terminal-Bench 4.0, Vibe Code Bench).

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2.6-Pro or Kimi K3?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $0.24 / $11 for Kimi K3.

Sources

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