MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Xiaomi released a free-to-download AI model that works well for developers building AI assistants, a lighter version alongside its top model.
This came out before trckr began following OpenRouter, so it was added on Nov 6 without an alert. Its release date comes from OpenRouter.
Key facts
- Released
- Sep 21, 2026
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Listens: Understands speech and other sounds.Watches video: Understands video clips you share with it.
Can I use it?
In an app
No app mentioned so far.
For developers
Developers can use it now through an API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet..
Download
Free to download and run on your own computer: it has Open weights: The model's files are public, so anyone can download it, run it on their own computer and build on it, usually for free. trckr labels these "Open"..
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Input
- $0.14
- per million tokensCached: $0.0028
- Output
- $0.28
- per million tokens
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 1.05M tokens
- about 790,000 words
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- Longest answer
- 131K tokens (about 98,000 words)
From the lab's own listing on models.dev and OpenRouter, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Chat answers, by people's votes#72 of 86
- Gemini 4 Carbon1,527
- 2Gemini 4 Argon1,522
- 71MiMo-V2-Pro1,448
- 72MiMo-V2.6-Flash1,448
- 73GPT-5.4 Mini1,447
Source: LMArena · LMArena text, adjusted for style
- Building apps, by people's votes#20 of 85
- Claude Opus 5.51,818
- 2Claude Sonnet 5.51,773
- 19Grok 4.71,640
- 20MiMo-V2.6-Flash1,636
- 21Hy4 preview1,632
Source: LMArena · LMArena WebDev
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The details
An Open source: Strictly, the model's files, code and training recipe are all public and free to reuse. Often used loosely to mean "free to download". Mixture of experts (MoE): A design that splits a big model into many "expert" parts and uses only a few for each word. It gives big-model quality at closer to small-model speed. model from Xiaomi with 309B total size and 15B active per Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens., using a hybrid attention design. It is free to download, and Xiaomi's lighter sibling to the Pro model.
Model ID: The exact name developers type to use a model, like gpt-5-mini. New IDs often show up in a lab's systems before the official announcement, which is how trckr spots many releases early.
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