Model comparison

MiMo-V2-Flash vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index. MiMo-V2-Flash costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 235B-A22B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

MiMo-V2-Flash Xiaomi

40.8

Rank #137 Confirmed

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.2

Rank #83 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. MiMo-V2-Flash scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 235B-A22B leads 48.5 to 35.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 25.9% for MiMo-V2-Flash and 42.4% for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • MiMo-V2-Flash is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • MiMo-V2-Flash accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

MiMo-V2-Flash and Qwen3 235B-A22B specifications
MiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderXiaomiAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.843.2
Released2025-12-162025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K131K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.14$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.28$2.80
Results tracked2149

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 35.8 (#205), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 43.8 (#72)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
SciCode25.9%42.4%
LMArena Coding14431445
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
LMArena WebDev1330—
WeirdML—41%
ALE-Bench737.95—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

MiMo-V2-Flash: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.7 (#48)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning MiMo-V2-Flash leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 24.1 (#155), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.8 (#302)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
CritPt0%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14201433
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—11%
Chess Puzzles—12%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—80.3%
LMCA—29.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.87
ForecastBench—59.7

Math Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 35.6 (#141), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 48.5 (#51)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Math13961431
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
Omni-MATH—71.8%
MATH Level 5—68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 39.1 (#126), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.5 (#67)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert14251460
GPQA Diamond—80.1%
SimpleQA Verified—40.4%
MMLU-Pro—84.4%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multilingual Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 51.1 (#109), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.5 (#84)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English13911410
LMArena Chinese14631481
LMArena French14291445
LMArena German13951432
LMArena Japanese13241400
LMArena Korean13581391
LMArena Russian13871411
LMArena Spanish14201429

Instruction Following Too close to call

MiMo-V2-Flash: 73.7 (#115), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.8 (#132)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following13921408
IFEval—83.5%

Long Context Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

MiMo-V2-Flash: 43.0 (#106), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#25)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query14091426
Fiction.LiveBench—75%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

MiMo-V2-Flash: 59.9 (#101), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.8 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMiMo-V2-FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text14111419
LMArena Creative Writing13751384
LMArena Multi-Turn14041432
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366
WildBench—86.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is MiMo-V2-Flash better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index. MiMo-V2-Flash costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 235B-A22B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, MiMo-V2-Flash or Qwen3 235B-A22B?

MiMo-V2-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; Qwen3 235B-A22B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is MiMo-V2-Flash or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.8 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2-Flash does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do MiMo-V2-Flash and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiMo-V2-Flash has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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