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Kimi K3 vs MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed

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.

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MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here.

MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed 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.

moonshotai

Kimi K3

Blended / 1M
$6.00
Context
1.0M
Released
Jul 16, 2026
Overall score
79.2
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xiaomi

MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed

Blended / 1M
$5.44
Context
1.0M
Released
Sep 21, 2026
Overall score
Not evaluated
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Specs and pricing

MetricKimi K3MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed
LiveBench overall

Mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better.

79.2
Cost per point

Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability.

$0.1909
Blended price / 1M

3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic.

$6.00$5.44win
Input price / 1M$3.00win$4.35
Output price / 1M$15.00$8.70win
Cached input / 1M

Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one.

$0.300$0.036win
Context window1.0M1.0M
Max output tokens944Kwin131K

Benchmarks by category

An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — Kimi K3 on top, MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed below, both out of 100.

Agentic coding
62.2
Coding
81.4
Reasoning
90.7
Mathematics
84.4
Data analysis
78.7
Language
85.5
Instruction following
71.4

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.

WorkloadKimi K3MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed
Support chatbot

1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests

$1,726/mo$1,429/mo
RAG assistant

8K in / 600 out × 100K requests

$2,220/mo$2,276/mo
Coding agent

40K in / 4K out × 20K requests

$2,088/mo$1,760/mo
Document extraction

20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests

$3,990/mo$4,787/mo
Bulk classification

500 in / 20 out × 5M requests

$7,650/mo$9,588/mo
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Which should you pick?

You are cost-constrained

MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed

Cheaper on blended list price at $5.44 per million tokens.

Kimi K3 vs MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed FAQ

Which is better, Kimi K3 or MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here. MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed 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 Kimi K3 cheaper than MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, Kimi K3 lists at $6.00 per million tokens and MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed at $5.44 — MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed is 10% cheaper. Input and output are priced separately — Kimi K3 charges $3.00 in and $15.00 out, MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed charges $4.35 and $8.70 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.

Does Kimi K3 or MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed have a bigger context window?

They are effectively the same — 1.0M for Kimi K3 and 1.0M for MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed.

Do Kimi K3 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed support prompt caching?

Both publish a cached-input rate: $0.300 per million for Kimi K3 and $0.036 for MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed, against full input rates of $3.00 and $4.35. On a workload with a long stable prefix — a system prompt, a tool schema, a retrieved corpus — that changes the economics more than the headline price does.

Related comparisons

How these numbers are produced

  • Price — provider list price from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
  • ScoresLiveBench release 2026-06-25, 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.