Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs MiMo-V2-Flash

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 41.3 on the Noometry Index. MiMo-V2-Flash costs 57× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

MiMo-V2-Flash Xiaomi

41.3

Rank #138 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and MiMo-V2-Flash in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 38.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 53.5% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 25.9% for MiMo-V2-Flash.
  • MiMo-V2-Flash is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • MiMo-V2-Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and MiMo-V2-Flash specifications
Claude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
ProviderAnthropicXiaomi
Noometry Index60.741.3
Released2026-05-282025-12-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.14
Output $ / M tokens$25$0.28
Results tracked6521

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), MiMo-V2-Flash: 36.1 (#211)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
LMArena WebDev15561330
SciCode53.5%25.9%
LMArena Coding14901443
ALE-Bench1,564737.95
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), MiMo-V2-Flash: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), MiMo-V2-Flash: 24.9 (#157)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
CritPt20.9%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14821420
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), MiMo-V2-Flash: 38.3 (#139)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), MiMo-V2-Flash: 39.7 (#131)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
LMArena Expert15021425
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), MiMo-V2-Flash: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), MiMo-V2-Flash: 51.0 (#113)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
LMArena Non-English14501392
LMArena Chinese15071462
LMArena French14811429
LMArena German14721395
LMArena Japanese14401325
LMArena Korean14321358
LMArena Russian14741387
LMArena Spanish14661420

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), MiMo-V2-Flash: 73.5 (#120)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following14761392

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), MiMo-V2-Flash: 43.0 (#110)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
LMArena Longer Query14831409

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), MiMo-V2-Flash: 59.7 (#106)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MiMo-V2-Flash
LMArena Text14611411
LMArena Creative Writing14541375
LMArena Multi-Turn14761404
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than MiMo-V2-Flash?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 41.3 on the Noometry Index. MiMo-V2-Flash costs 57× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or MiMo-V2-Flash?

MiMo-V2-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or MiMo-V2-Flash better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 36.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and MiMo-V2-Flash share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and MiMo-V2-Flash has 21.

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