Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | xiaomi | thinkingmachines |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.14/M | $0.45/M |
| Output Price | $0.28/M | $1.20/M |
| Context Window | 1,050,000 | 524,288 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 262,144 |
| 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-V2.6-Flash costs $0.21 and Inkling Small costs $0.75, so MiMo-V2.6-Flash is about 3.6 times cheaper for the same work.
MiMo-V2.6-Flash reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 786 pages for Inkling Small.
Only MiMo-V2.6-Flash offers structured output and video input.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores higher on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
MiMo-V2.6-Flash was released in September 2026 and Inkling Small in July 2026.
Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash if you need lower cost, long documents, structured output, video 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?
| Task | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 134 | 125 |
| Code Review | 132 | 128 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 132 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 116 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 116 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 118 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 134 | 121 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 124 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 119 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 125 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 123 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 123 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 138 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 122 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →