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MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest vs Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5
Vendor~moonshotaixiaomi
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.16/M$0.40/M
Output Price$10.14/M$2.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output943,71865,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, MiMo-V2.5 costs $0.90 and Kimi Latest costs $2.69, so MiMo-V2.5 is about 3.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,000,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,500 pages.

Only MiMo-V2.5 offers audio input.

Across the 10 tasks where they differ, MiMo-V2.5 on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

Pick MiMo-V2.5 if you need lower cost, audio input or 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?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi LatestXiaomi: MiMo-V2.5
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Completion 129 131
Code Documentation 129 131
Regex Writing 117 119
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 133
JSON Extraction 129 131
Bulk Data Labeling 126 129
Long-Document Summarization 137 137
Short-Form Summarization 121 123
Blog Post Writing 121 121

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

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