Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro

Anthropic against Xiaomi, compared on context, price, and verified benchmark results.

Catalog record checked September 26, 2026Individual provider fields may changeEvidence confidence: High — see receipts below

Anthropic

Claude Opus 5

Frontier

Xiaomi

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro

Frontier · Open weights

AI model capability comparison
Specification	Claude Opus 5	Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Provider
Provider	Anthropic	Xiaomi
Tier
Tier	Frontier	Frontier
Context window
Context window	1M	Winner: 1.05M
Max output
Max output	128K	Not verifiedUnverified
Input / 1M tokens
Input / 1M tokens	$5	Winner: $0.435
Output / 1M tokens
Output / 1M tokens	$25	Winner: $0.87
Weights
Weights	Closed	Open
Parameters
Parameters	Not disclosedUnverified	1.02T total / 42B active (MoE)
Reasoning levels
Reasoning levels	adaptive	Not verifiedUnverified
Modalities
Modalities	text, image	text, image, video, audio
License
License	Not disclosedUnverified	MIT
API model id
API model id	claude-opus-5	mimo-v2.6-pro
Released
Released	July 24, 2026	September 21, 2026
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index [max] (2026-09-26)
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index [max] (2026-09-26)	50.8	Not verifiedUnverified
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (2026-09-26)
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (2026-09-26)	Not verifiedUnverified	46.3
Humanity's Last Exam (2026-09-01)
Humanity's Last Exam (2026-09-01)	63.6	Not verifiedUnverified
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (2026-09-03)
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (2026-09-03)	86.7	Winner: 89.9
DeepSWE 1.1 (2026-09-21)
DeepSWE 1.1 (2026-09-21)	Not verifiedUnverified	71.9

Prices are USD per million tokens at standard rates, excluding batch and caching discounts. Bold indicates the better figure where one is objectively better. Values we could not confirm from the provider are shown as “Not verified” rather than estimated.

Benchmark receipts

Where each score comes from, and how far it can be compared across models.

2026-09-26
Artificial Analysis
Composite index blending reasoning, knowledge, and coding evals into one 0–100 score.
Comparable with caveatOnly same-version scores are comparable. v4.3.2 was rebaselined (the top score fell from 66 on v4.1.1 to ~58), so v4.1.1 figures must not be compared with v4.3.2 figures — check measuredAt.
2026-09-21
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 announcement (vendor)
Agentic software engineering: pass@1 on real repo tasks with reported cost per completed task.
Directly comparable
2026-09-03
Meta Muse Spark 1.3 launch table (independent cross-vendor run; conflicts with Google's 89.1 — both preserved)
Agentic terminal work: multi-step tasks executed in a sandboxed shell environment.
Comparable with caveatNot comparable with Terminal-Bench 3.0 or 4.0 (different task sets) or v1; harness configuration (container, time limits) also shifts results.
2026-09-02
Google Gemini 3.8 Flash launch eval table (independent cross-vendor run)
Agentic terminal work: multi-step tasks executed in a sandboxed shell environment.
Comparable with caveatNot comparable with Terminal-Bench 3.0 or 4.0 (different task sets) or v1; harness configuration (container, time limits) also shifts results.
2026-09-01
Anthropic Fable 5.1 comparison table (vendor, with tools; 56.6 no tools)
Frontier-knowledge ceiling: extremely hard multi-domain questions written to be near-impossible without deep expertise.
Comparable with caveatSubset/tool configurations (text-only vs with-tools) differ between vendors and materially change scores; must match configuration to compare.

Pricing tiers

Claude Opus 5: Standard $5/$25 per MTok; cache reads 10% of base input. Knowledge cutoff May 2026.

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro: $0.435/$0.87 per MTok (cache hit $0.0036; cache writes free for a limited time) — unchanged from V2.5-Pro. UltraSpeed mode (mimo-v2.6-pro-ultraspeed) costs $4.35/$8.70. Open weights (MIT) as MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL.

FrontierRecord checked September 26, 2026

Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's July 2026 agentic-coding model, now 'Active (legacy)': Opus 5.5 is cheaper ($4/$20 vs $5/$25) and stronger.

Best for

Complex agentic coding
Enterprise work
Long-context analysis

Watch out

Superseded by Opus 5.5 — migrate new work, but note Opus 5.5's breaking changes (adaptive thinking always on; forced tool use errors). Output costs 5x input.

FrontierOpen weightsRecord checked September 26, 2026

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is Xiaomi's open-weight (MIT) 1.02T MoE with omni-modal input and a 1M context — the top open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis index at under $1 per million output tokens.

Best for

Open-weight frontier work
Omni-modal input
Cheap long-context API

Watch out

Max output is not verified; vendor benchmark claims (DeepSWE 71.9) are not yet independently reproduced.

When the cheaper one wins

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper on output at $0.87 per million tokens against $25 for Claude Opus 5 — about 29×. Use the cheaper tier for classification, extraction, summarisation, and any task where the expensive model’s extra score does not change the accepted output. The expensive one only pays if your hardest task actually fails on the cheap tier. These are standard-tier API rates, excluding batch and cache discounts.

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Evidence confidence: High

How strong and complete the evidence behind this comparison is — not a prediction of which model is better.

Pricing verified on both sides — Input and output rates are verified for both models.
2/5 core specs verified on both sides — Not published for at least one side: max output, parameter count, reasoning levels.
3 shared named benchmarks with differing scores — Measured on: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Terminal-Bench 2.1, Terminal-Bench 2.1.
Verified within the last 90 days — Newest catalog check was 2 days ago.
Both models carry source citations — Each side has at least two catalog sources on record.

Source receipts

Each catalog figure was checked against the provider or an independent second source on the date shown.

Claude Opus 5: Anthropic — Claude Opus 5 (accessed 2026-08-29)
Claude Opus 5: Anthropic news — Claude Opus 5 (accessed 2026-08-29)
Claude Opus 5: Anthropic — Claude Opus 5.5 (Opus 5 successor) (accessed 2026-09-26)
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Xiaomi — MiMo-V2.6 (pricing, benchmarks) (accessed 2026-09-26)
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Hugging Face — XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL (MIT, 1.02T/42B, 1M) (accessed 2026-09-26)

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Common questions

Claude Opus 5 vs Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro

Answered from the verified figures on this page rather than general guidance.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro cheaper for input?

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper at $0.435 per million input tokens, against $5 for Claude Opus 5 — roughly 11× the price. Output tokens usually dominate a real bill, so weigh the output rate more heavily than the input rate. These are base rates; Claude Opus 5 has tiered pricing: Standard $5/$25 per MTok; cache reads 10% of base input. Knowledge cutoff May 2026. Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro has tiered pricing: $0.435/$0.87 per MTok (cache hit $0.0036; cache writes free for a limited time) — unchanged from V2.5-Pro. UltraSpeed mode (mimo-v2.6-pro-ultraspeed) costs $4.35/$8.70. Open weights (MIT) as MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro cheaper for output?

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper at $0.87 per million output tokens, against $25 for Claude Opus 5 — roughly 29× the price. Output tokens usually dominate a real bill, so weigh the output rate more heavily than the input rate. These are base rates; Claude Opus 5 has tiered pricing: Standard $5/$25 per MTok; cache reads 10% of base input. Knowledge cutoff May 2026. Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro has tiered pricing: $0.435/$0.87 per MTok (cache hit $0.0036; cache writes free for a limited time) — unchanged from V2.5-Pro. UltraSpeed mode (mimo-v2.6-pro-ultraspeed) costs $4.35/$8.70. Open weights (MIT) as MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL.

Which has the larger context window, Claude Opus 5 or Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro?

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro accepts 1.05M tokens against 1M for Claude Opus 5. This only matters if you routinely send very long documents or large codebases.

Should I use Claude Opus 5 or Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro?

Both sit in the frontier tier, so the choice usually comes down to price and context rather than capability. Claude Opus 5 suits complex agentic coding; Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro suits open-weight frontier work.

Can I self-host Claude Opus 5 or Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro?

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro publishes open weights, but self-hosting and third-party provider access depend on the licence, hardware, serving support, and availability. Claude Opus 5 is a closed model whose supported access paths are controlled by its provider.

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Choosing between them

The verified figures that separate this pair, computed from the catalog rather than restated boilerplate.

Input price: Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro costs $0.435 per 1M tokens versus $5 for Claude Opus 5 — a 11.5x difference at the headline tier.
Context: Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro takes 1.05M against 1M for Claude Opus 5 — only decisive if your prompts approach the smaller window.
Measured capability: Claude Opus 5 leads Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 50.8 to 46.3 (measured 2026-09-26).
Deployment: Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro publishes weights you can self-host; the other is API-only.

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