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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime vs Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-13.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Vendorqwenxiaomi
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-63.3
Input Price$4.00/M$0.14/M
Output Price$12.00/M$0.28/M
Context Window1,000,0001,050,000
Max Output131,072131,072
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-62.5

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs $0.21 and Qwen3.8 Max Prime costs $7.00, so MiMo-V2.6-Flash is about 33.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,000,000 and 1,050,000 tokens, about 1,500 and 1,575 pages.

Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash offers audio input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, MiMo-V2.6-Flash on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash if you need lower cost, audio input or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 Max PrimeXiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash
SQL Generation 132 141
Code Review 132 143
Code Completion 116 133
Code Refactoring 136 146
Bug Fixing 136 147
Unit Test Generation 124 131
Code Documentation 128 137
Regex Writing 116 126
CI/CD Pipelines 120 127
Frontend Component Design 122 129
Data Analysis 124 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 136
ETL Scripting 128 136
JSON Extraction 120 131
Bulk Data Labeling 117 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 134
Long-Document Summarization 136 148
Short-Form Summarization 112 127
Blog Post Writing 120 129

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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