Is MiMo-V2.5-Pro a good deal?

Whether anything in this catalogue beats MiMo-V2.5-Pro on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.

13 undominated of 136 · Sep 23, 2026

As of Sep 23, 2026, MiMo-V2.5-Pro is dominated for Balanced on LMArena. GLM 5.3 Flash scores 7.1 higher and costs 56% less, with a covering envelope. 13 of 136 rated, priced standard models are undominated.

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MiMo-V2.5-Pro

Balanced

3 tokens in per 1 out

GLM 5.3 Flash is both better and cheaper than MiMo-V2.5-Pro: 7.1 points higher on LMArena and 56% less per million tokens, $0.31 cheaper at this mix.

MiMo-V2.5-Pro

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

1464.8

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

$0.544/M

GLM 5.3 Flash

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

1471.9

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

$0.237/M

MiMo-V2.5-Pro takes text, returns up to 131,072 tokens from a 1,050,000-token context, and is listed by 7 sellers.

Compared against 136 rated, priced models on this lens: 1 model dominates it and gives up nothing, none does so with a trade-off. MiMo-V2.5-Pro scores 1464.8 at $0.54 per million tokens for this mix.

Envelope-safe replacements

Each row scores at least as high, costs no more, and covers this model’s context, output, modalities, tools, and reasoning. A cheaper narrower model is not listed here.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou save
GLM 5.3 Flash1471.9 +7.1$0.237/M56%
GLM 5.3 Flash1471.9 · $0.237/MMiMo-V2.5-Pro1464.8 · $0.544/MLMArena EloEffective $/M · Balanced
136 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

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