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Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

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

Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Vendorxiaomideepseek
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.14/M$0.05/M
Output Price$0.28/M$0.57/M
Context Window1,050,0001,048,576
Max Output131,072943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.19 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs $0.21, so DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is slightly cheaper for the same work.

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

Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash offers audio input and video input.

Across the 5 tasks where they differ, MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores higher on 5 (SQL Generation, CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash if you need audio input, video input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick DeepSeek V4.1 Flash if you need lower cost.

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?

TaskXiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-FlashDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
SQL Generation 134 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 133
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
Long-Document Summarization 138 137
Blog Post Writing 122 121

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

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