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Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Vendorxiaomideepseek
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-57.7
Input Price$0.14/M$0.22/M
Output Price$0.28/M$0.65/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output131,072262,144
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-57.5

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs $0.21 and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.38, so MiMo-V2.6-Flash is about 1.8 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

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

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores higher on 2 (JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling), DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

MiMo-V2.6-Flash was released in September 2026 and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp in August 2026.

Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash if you need lower cost, audio input or video input; pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp if you need 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 Flash Vision Exp
SQL Generation 134 140
Code Review 132 142
Code Completion 131 133
Code Refactoring 136 145
Bug Fixing 136 146
Unit Test Generation 124 130
Code Documentation 131 137
Regex Writing 119 125
CI/CD Pipelines 120 126
Frontend Component Design 122 128
Data Analysis 124 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 136
ETL Scripting 128 136
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 138 147
Short-Form Summarization 123 126
Blog Post Writing 122 128

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

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