AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — Xiaomi
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is a natively omnimodal sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 1.02T total and 42B activated parameters and a 1M-token context, which Xiaomi calls its most capable MiMo model. Xiaomi released and open-sourced it under the MIT licence on September 22, 2026.
Model B — Alibaba
Qwen3.8-Flash is a multimodal Qwen model with a million-token context window, aimed at coding assistance, agentic workflows and visual understanding. It is the hosted version of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, which Qwen describes as an experimental preview of the architecture that will underpin Qwen4.
| Property | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | Qwen3.8-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Sep 22, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
| Developer | Xiaomi | Alibaba |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | open-weight | open-weight |
| Context window | — | 1,000,000 |
| Parameters | 1.02T total, 42B activated (sparse MoE); 681M-parameter vision encoder | 125B with 6B activated, plus 51B n-gram embedding and 4B MTP (open-weight base Qwen3.8-Flash-Next) |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $0.435 | $0.15 |
| Output $/M tokens | $0.87 | $0.47 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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