// head_to_head
Moondream 3 Preview vs MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Published LiveBench scores across all seven categories, live list pricing, context windows, and the measured cost of a point of capability — for both models, side by side.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here.
Moondream 3 Preview does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.
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Moondream 3 Preview
- Blended / 1M
- $0.850
- Context
- 32K
- Released
- Oct 15, 2026
- Overall score
- Not evaluated
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro
- Blended / 1M
- $0.544
- Context
- 1.1M
- Released
- Sep 21, 2026
- Overall score
- 74.9
Specs and pricing
| Metric | Moondream 3 Preview | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench overall Mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better. | — | 74.9 |
| Cost per point Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability. | — | $0.9976 |
| Blended price / 1M 3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic. | $0.850 | $0.544win |
| Input price / 1M | $0.300win | $0.435 |
| Output price / 1M | $2.50 | $0.870win |
| Cached input / 1M Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one. | — | $0.0036 |
| Context window | 32K | 1.1Mwin |
| Max output tokens | 4K | 131Kwin |
Benchmarks by category
An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — Moondream 3 Preview on top, MiMo-V2.6-Pro below, both out of 100.
What each one costs to run
Per-token prices are hard to feel. These are monthly list costs for both models across five workload shapes, using each provider's published cached-input rate where there is one.
| Workload | Moondream 3 Preview | MiMo-V2.6-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot 1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests | $272.00/mo | $142.94/mo |
| RAG assistant 8K in / 600 out × 100K requests | $390.00/mo | $227.64/mo |
| Coding agent 40K in / 4K out × 20K requests | $440.00/mo | $176.02/mo |
| Document extraction 20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests | $487.50/mo | $478.68/mo |
| Bulk classification 500 in / 20 out × 5M requests | $1,000/mo | $958.80/mo |
Which should you pick?
You need to fit large documents in one call
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Wider context window — 1.1M against 32K.
Moondream 3 Preview vs MiMo-V2.6-Pro FAQ
Which is better, Moondream 3 Preview or MiMo-V2.6-Pro?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here. Moondream 3 Preview does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.
Is Moondream 3 Preview cheaper than MiMo-V2.6-Pro?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, Moondream 3 Preview lists at $0.850 per million tokens and MiMo-V2.6-Pro at $0.544 — MiMo-V2.6-Pro is 1.6× cheaper. Input and output are priced separately — Moondream 3 Preview charges $0.300 in and $2.50 out, MiMo-V2.6-Pro charges $0.435 and $0.870 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.
Does Moondream 3 Preview or MiMo-V2.6-Pro have a bigger context window?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro has the larger context window: 32K for Moondream 3 Preview against 1.1M for MiMo-V2.6-Pro. Note that a window you can fill is not a window you should fill — retrieval quality usually degrades well before the limit, and you pay for every token you put in it.
Do Moondream 3 Preview and MiMo-V2.6-Pro support prompt caching?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro publishes a cached-input rate of $0.0036 per million tokens against a full input rate of $0.435. The catalogue lists no separate cached rate for Moondream 3 Preview, which means the provider does not price it separately here — not that caching is unavailable.
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How these numbers are produced
- Price — provider list price from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
- Scores — LiveBench release 2026-09-02, using their own category map. Each model shows its strongest published run. A blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
- Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
- “Win” — awarded only past a threshold: one full point on a benchmark score, 10% on a price, 25% on a context window. Anything tighter reports as a tie, because effort settings alone move a LiveBench score by more than that.
Published benchmarks rank models on someone else's tasks. Before committing, see LLM & agent evaluation for building an eval on your own.