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MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-24.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Vendormoonshotaixiaomi
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score95.178.2
Input Price$2.00/M$0.43/M
Output Price$10.00/M$0.87/M
Context Window1,048,5761,050,000
Max Output943,718131,072
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index90.976.4

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, MiMo-V2.6-Pro costs $0.65 and Kimi K3.1 Pro costs $4.50, so MiMo-V2.6-Pro is about 6.9 times cheaper for the same work.

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

Only MiMo-V2.6-Pro offers audio input.

On our blended benchmark score Kimi K3.1 Pro leads 95.1 to 78.2.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Kimi K3.1 Pro scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), MiMo-V2.6-Pro on 7 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others).

Kimi K3.1 Pro was released in October 2026 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro in September 2026.

Pick Kimi K3.1 Pro if you need benchmark performance; pick MiMo-V2.6-Pro if you need lower cost or audio input.

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?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 ProXiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro
SQL Generation 143 143
Code Review 149 146
Code Completion 119 133
Code Refactoring 150 148
Bug Fixing 153 150
Unit Test Generation 134 133
Code Documentation 137 138
Regex Writing 126 127
CI/CD Pipelines 130 129
Frontend Component Design 132 131
Data Analysis 137 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 136
ETL Scripting 140 138
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 129
OCR / Document Parsing 135 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 134
Long-Document Summarization 151 150
Short-Form Summarization 118 127
Blog Post Writing 131 131

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

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