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Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

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

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Vendorxiaomideepseek
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score63.366.3
Input Price$0.14/M$0.15/M
Output Price$0.28/M$0.60/M
Context Window1,050,0001,048,576
Max Output131,072393,216
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index62.565.1

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs $0.21 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.30, so MiMo-V2.6-Flash is about 1.4 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,050,000 and 1,048,576 tokens, about 1,575 and 1,573 pages.

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

On our blended benchmark score DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads 66.3 to 63.3.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores higher on 2 (JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash if you need lower cost, audio input or video input; pick DeepSeek V4.1 Flash if you need benchmark performance 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?

TaskXiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-FlashDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
SQL Generation 141 141
Code Review 143 144
Code Refactoring 146 146
Bug Fixing 147 148
Unit Test Generation 131 131
Code Documentation 137 137
Regex Writing 126 126
CI/CD Pipelines 127 127
Frontend Component Design 129 129
Data Analysis 133 133
ETL Scripting 136 137
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 134 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 134
Long-Document Summarization 148 148
Short-Form Summarization 127 127
Blog Post Writing 129 129

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

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