Noometry

Model comparison

MiMo-V2.5 vs Qwen3 Max

MiMo-V2.5 and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.4 vs 43.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi

43.4

Rank #93 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. MiMo-V2.5 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3 Max in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 Max leads 48.1 to 40.8.
  • MiMo-V2.5 is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $6 for Qwen3 Max.
  • MiMo-V2.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • MiMo-V2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

MiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
ProviderXiaomiAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.443.7
Released2026-04-222025-09-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1.05M262K
Max output131K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.14$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$0.28$6
Results tracked2333

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

MiMo-V2.5: 43.9 (#81), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Coding14691456
ALE-Bench513.95370.45
LMArena WebDev1438—
SciCode43.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiMo-V2.5: —, Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning MiMo-V2.5 leads

MiMo-V2.5: 28.6 (#101), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Hard Prompts14501448
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
CritPt3.7%—
Chess Puzzles—4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LMCA—28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.38

Math Qwen3 Max leads

MiMo-V2.5: 36.8 (#163), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Math14361446
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
ProofBench16%—
MATH Level 5—97.1%

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

MiMo-V2.5: 40.8 (#115), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Expert14601455
GPQA Diamond—72.6%
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

MiMo-V2.5: 39.8 (#54), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Vision1247—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

MiMo-V2.5: 51.9 (#99), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English14041429
LMArena Chinese14681478
LMArena French14471449
LMArena German14211463
LMArena Japanese13061397
LMArena Korean13631399
LMArena Russian13951428
LMArena Spanish14161462

Instruction Following Too close to call

MiMo-V2.5: 75.5 (#60), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14341419

Long Context MiMo-V2.5 leads

MiMo-V2.5: 44.2 (#73), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query14451438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

MiMo-V2.5: 61.6 (#86), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkMiMo-V2.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Text14281439
LMArena Creative Writing13931402
LMArena Multi-Turn14451446

Frequently asked questions

Is MiMo-V2.5 better than Qwen3 Max?

MiMo-V2.5 and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.4 vs 43.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2.5 or Qwen3 Max?

MiMo-V2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Max lists at $1.20 and $6.

Is MiMo-V2.5 or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (43.9 vs 43.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do MiMo-V2.5 and Qwen3 Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiMo-V2.5 has 23 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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