Model comparison

MiMo-V2.6-Flash vs Qwen3.5 Plus

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.4 to 42.3 on the Noometry Index.

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MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi

44.4

Rank #74 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 47.9 to 37.4.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2.40 for Qwen3.5 Plus.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

MiMo-V2.6-Flash and Qwen3.5 Plus specifications
MiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderXiaomiAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index44.442.3
Released2026-09-222026-02-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output131K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.14$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$0.28$2.40
Results tracked1315

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 44.3 (#68), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Coding1516—
ALE-Bench—621.92

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 29.6 (#82), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles—22%
LMArena Hard Prompts1481—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—80.5%
LMCA—36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.79

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 37.4 (#97), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LMArena Math1477—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 42.0 (#91), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1516—

Multimodal Not comparable

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 40.2 (#39), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Not comparable

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 54.6 (#41), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1439—
LMArena Chinese1501—
LMArena Russian1424—

Instruction Following Not comparable

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 77.0 (#33), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1463—

Long Context MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 44.8 (#52), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1465—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 63.9 (#61), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2.6-FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1459—
LMArena Creative Writing1408—
LMArena Multi-Turn1460—

Frequently asked questions

Is MiMo-V2.6-Flash better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.4 to 42.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2.6-Flash or Qwen3.5 Plus?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 Plus lists at $0.40 and $2.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do MiMo-V2.6-Flash and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiMo-V2.6-Flash has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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