text model comparison
Mercury 2.5 vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Mercury 2.5 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash are both current text models, from Inception and Xiaomi MiMo. MiMo-V2.6-Flash is 30% cheaper per 1M input tokens than Mercury 2.5, $0.14 vs $0.20. MiMo-V2.6-Flash has the larger context window, 1,000,000 vs 260,000 tokens.
Data verified October 13, 2026 · Dataset 2026-10-13
Side by side
Standard-tier prices in effect today. The better value in each row is highlighted.
| Fact | Mercury 2.5 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Price per 1M input tokens | $0.20 | $0.14 (better) |
| Price per 1M output tokens | $0.75 | $0.28 (better) |
| Cost of 10M input and 2M output tokens | $3.50 | $1.96 (better) |
| Arena Text | Not measured | 1451 Elo (#35 of 49) |
| Provider | Inception | Xiaomi MiMo |
| Release date | September 8, 2026 | September 22, 2026 |
| Access | API only | API and open weights |
| Context window | 260,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max output | 65,536 tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Input | text | text, image, audio, video |
| Output | text | text |
Scores:Arena · 2026-10-12
When to choose each
Mercury 2.5
Best for
- Latency-critical agent loops and voice agents
- High-throughput, low-cost text generation
Watch out for
- Inception publishes no benchmark scores for it, and no independent score is recorded here
- The recorded rates are list prices; an 80% launch discount was running with no published end date
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Best for
- High-frequency multimodal calls
- Low-cost agent workloads
Watch out for
- Xiaomi's own table puts it well behind the Pro model on exploitation tasks (ExploitBench 25.3 against 47.9)
- The API checkpoint (RL or MOPD weights) is not identified
Mercury 2.5 vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash FAQ
Which is cheaper, Mercury 2.5 or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash is 30% cheaper per 1M input tokens than Mercury 2.5, $0.14 vs $0.20. For 10M input and 2M output tokens, Mercury 2.5 costs $3.50 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash $1.96 at standard rates.
Which has the larger context window, Mercury 2.5 or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash has the larger context window, 1,000,000 vs 260,000 tokens.
Can I run Mercury 2.5 or MiMo-V2.6-Flash myself?
MiMo-V2.6-Flash is released as open weights you can run yourself; Mercury 2.5 is available through its provider's API only.
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Production evaluation
Choosing between Mercury 2.5 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash?
Public benchmarks narrow the shortlist. We run both on your own tasks, data and cost limits, then build the routing and review controls to run the winner in production.
- A head-to-head evaluation on your real workload
- Routing between models by cost and difficulty