MiMo-V2.6-Pro vs Qwen3.8-Max

  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1491 against 1484.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Qwen3.8-Max.
  • 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 5 and Qwen3.8-Max wins 6 (MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Vibe Code Bench, Finance Agent, Tax Agent Bench).
LMArena text rating over time
14701480149015001510Aug 2Aug 22Sep 11Oct 1Oct 22
LatestMiMo-V2.6-Pro 1491Qwen3.8-Max 1484

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro
  • Qwen3.8-Max
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-ProQwen3.8-Max
The model
LabXiaomiAlibaba
Released2026-09-212026-09-03
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1.1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$0.43$2
Output, per 1M tokens$0.87$6
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1491#11 of 3511484#15 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1625#23 of 1241673#12 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1263#53 of 1461313#10 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1533#5 of 3461503#21 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1500#16 of 3391501#15 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1466#20 of 3491477#16 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1511#8 of 3511497#16 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1491#12 of 3511481#18 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score57.81%#14 of 2759.05%#11 of 27
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal31.31%#21 of 5534.34%#18 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—85.60%#16 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works85.22%#15 of 11564.70%#49 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests48.79%#16 of 2857.19%#10 of 28
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination—87.85%#10 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools64.26%#10 of 3158.83%#23 of 31
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks57.85%#12 of 3161.66%#5 of 31
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions32.39%#19 of 7632.09%#22 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks72.14%#8 of 2873.90%#5 of 28
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research47.12%#15 of 8546.15%#17 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes44.97%#39 of 10740.67%#62 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not—93.69%#6 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering—88.60%#18 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text—88.03%#12 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal2.86%#33 of 4212.86%#13 of 42

Add models in the compare tool. Vals Index: MiMo-V2.6-Pro 57.81%, Qwen3.8-Max 59.05%.

Questions

Which is better, MiMo-V2.6-Pro or Qwen3.8-Max?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1491 against 1484. MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Qwen3.8-Max. 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 5 and Qwen3.8-Max wins 6 (MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Vibe Code Bench, Finance Agent, Tax Agent Bench).

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2.6-Pro or Qwen3.8-Max?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper: $0.43 / $0.87 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Qwen3.8-Max.

Sources

Every number on this page comes from these sources; models without a published number show none. Download the data. Cite as “Nexus Explorer, nexus.inc/models”.