NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) vs Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-19.
| NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | nvidia | xiaomi |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 40.1 | 62.0 |
| Input Price | Free | $0.14/M |
| Output Price | Free | $0.28/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,050,000 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 43.7 | 62.5 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) costs $0 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs $0.21, so Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) is free for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,000,000 and 1,050,000 tokens, about 1,500 and 1,575 pages.
Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash offers audio input.
On our blended benchmark score MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads 62.0 to 40.1.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) scores higher on 2 (JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling), MiMo-V2.6-Flash on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) was released in October 2026 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash in September 2026.
Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) if you need lower cost; pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash if you need audio input, benchmark performance 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?
| Task | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 139 | 141 |
| Code Review | 140 | 143 |
| Code Completion | 132 | 133 |
| Code Refactoring | 143 | 146 |
| Bug Fixing | 144 | 147 |
| Unit Test Generation | 129 | 131 |
| Code Documentation | 135 | 137 |
| Regex Writing | 124 | 126 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 125 | 127 |
| Frontend Component Design | 127 | 129 |
| Data Analysis | 130 | 133 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 135 | 136 |
| ETL Scripting | 134 | 136 |
| JSON Extraction | 132 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 130 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 133 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 133 | 134 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 145 | 148 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 126 | 127 |
| Blog Post Writing | 127 | 129 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →