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MiMo-V2.6-Flash vs GLM 5.3 Flash

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-Flash is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here.

MiMo-V2.6-Flash 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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MiMo-V2.6-Flash

Blended / 1M
$0.175
Context
1.0M
Released
Sep 21, 2026
Overall score
Not evaluated
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GLM 5.3 Flash

Blended / 1M
$0.237
Context
1.3M
Released
Aug 26, 2026
Overall score
71.6
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Specs and pricing

MetricMiMo-V2.6-FlashGLM 5.3 Flash
LiveBench overall

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

71.6
Cost per point

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

$0.0161
Blended price / 1M

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

$0.175win$0.237
Input price / 1M$0.140$0.150
Output price / 1M$0.280win$0.500
Cached input / 1M

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

$0.0028win$0.050
Context window1.0M1.3M
Max output tokens131K944Kwin

Benchmarks by category

An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — MiMo-V2.6-Flash on top, GLM 5.3 Flash below, both out of 100.

Agentic coding
56.8
Coding
79.0
Reasoning
77.6
Mathematics
81.2
Data analysis
76.4
Language
77.3
Instruction following
52.8

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.

WorkloadMiMo-V2.6-FlashGLM 5.3 Flash
Support chatbot

1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests

$46.12/mo$68.80/mo
RAG assistant

8K in / 600 out × 100K requests

$73.92/mo$110.00/mo
Coding agent

40K in / 4K out × 20K requests

$57.57/mo$104.00/mo
Document extraction

20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests

$154.14/mo$182.50/mo
Bulk classification

500 in / 20 out × 5M requests

$309.40/mo$375.00/mo
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Which should you pick?

You are cost-constrained

MiMo-V2.6-Flash

Cheaper on blended list price at $0.175 per million tokens.

MiMo-V2.6-Flash vs GLM 5.3 Flash FAQ

Which is better, MiMo-V2.6-Flash or GLM 5.3 Flash?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here. MiMo-V2.6-Flash 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 MiMo-V2.6-Flash cheaper than GLM 5.3 Flash?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, MiMo-V2.6-Flash lists at $0.175 per million tokens and GLM 5.3 Flash at $0.237 — MiMo-V2.6-Flash is 36% cheaper. Input and output are priced separately — MiMo-V2.6-Flash charges $0.140 in and $0.280 out, GLM 5.3 Flash charges $0.150 and $0.500 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.

Does MiMo-V2.6-Flash or GLM 5.3 Flash have a bigger context window?

They are effectively the same — 1.0M for MiMo-V2.6-Flash and 1.3M for GLM 5.3 Flash.

Do MiMo-V2.6-Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash support prompt caching?

Both publish a cached-input rate: $0.0028 per million for MiMo-V2.6-Flash and $0.050 for GLM 5.3 Flash, against full input rates of $0.140 and $0.150. 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.

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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.
  • 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.