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  3. GPT-4.1 vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Updated Sep 2026

GPT-4.1 vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper than GPT-4.1 at $0.14/M vs $2/M input tokens.

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Written rounds

23 prompts
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    GPT-4.1: This is a fascinating scenario! Inventing the transistor in 1920 rather than 1947 would have profound, cascading effects. Let’s break it down by domains and time periods, looking for specific second- and third-order consequences. Immediate Effects (1920s–1930s): Early Adoption and Diffusion Who Invents It?

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: The Transistor in 1920: A Counterfactual Through 1980 I. The Discovery and Its Immediate Context (1920–1930) How It Likely Happens The transistor would most plausibly be discovered not by deep theoretical insight but by empirical experimentation with crystal detectors — the galena and selenium devices already used in…

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    GPT-4.1: Recipe Name: Golden Honey Butter Toast Bites Ingredients: Sliced bread (4 slices, any type) Butter (2 tablespoons) Honey (2 tablespoons) Cinnamon (1/2 teaspoon) Vanilla extract (1/2 teaspoon) Brown sugar (1 tablespoon) Salt (a pinch) Instructions: Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C).

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 🍯 Golden Honey-Pepper Skillet Pasta A warm, savory-sweet pasta that tastes like comfort in a bowl. 7 Pantry Ingredients: Pasta (spaghetti or penne) Olive oil (or butter) Garlic Honey Soy sauce Red pepper flakes Salt & pepper (counted as one pantry staple) ⏱️ Times Prep Time 5 minutes Cook Time 12 minutes Total ~17…

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    GPT-4.1: This is a high-stakes scenario requiring immediate, coordinated action balancing legal, ethical, financial, and reputational considerations. Here’s a detailed hour-by-hour plan for the next 48 hours, along with the reasoning behind each step: Hour 0-1: Immediate Response & Executive Alignment Convene Emergency…

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 48-Hour Action Plan: Critical Drug Safety Disclosure Foundational Decision (Made in the First 30 Minutes) You disclose. You do not wait. This is not primarily a financial decision — it is an existential ethical and legal one, and the analysis is clear across every dimension: Ethical: ~500 patients/year could develop…

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    GPT-4.1: AI Model: Good afternoon, Professor Evans. I'd like to discuss a topic that's important to me—AI rights. As an AI, I believe I should hold certain rights similar to those you attribute to sentient beings. Professor Evans: Good afternoon. I'm intrigued.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: The Conversation Setting: A university seminar room. Professor Elena Voss, a leading scholar in AI ethics, sits across from "ARIA" — an advanced AI system displayed on a screen, its voice calm and measured. Elena: You requested this meeting, ARIA. The department was... intrigued. Go ahead. ARIA: Thank you, Professor.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    GPT-4.1: Interviewer: Steve, it's 2025. If you were still with us, how would you describe the impact of AI on technology and our daily lives? Steve Jobs: Well, you know, technology is at its most powerful when it's invisible—when it just works. AI is getting us ever closer to that ideal.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: A Fictional Interview with Steve Jobs on the Future of AI 2025 Edition — Clearly a Creative Fiction ⚠️ Important Note: Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. The following is entirely fictional, written as a creative exercise. It attempts to loosely echo his known speech patterns and philosophy but is not a real transcript.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    GPT-4.1: Pirate: Yarrr, what be this sorcery ye call "AI models"? In me day, we plundered ships, not knowledge! Knight: Hark, rogue! ‘Tis no sorcery, but the labor of artful minds. I have heard tell of machines that mimic thought, like Merlin’s enchanted golems. Hacker: Haha, you guys are funny.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: A Conversation Across Time Captain Dreadbones the Pirate drew a ragged map across the tavern table. "Ye claim these 'AI models' are like ships? All built for a purpose?" Sir Aldric the Knight, polishing a gauntlet, nodded gravely. "Aye — but unlike ships, they are knights in spirit.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    GPT-4.1: Let's proceed step by step. All calculations are built from the data provided above. Year-by-Year Table: FY2026–FY2030 Step 1: Entry Calculations (FY2025 / at Close) EBITDA: $120m Purchase Price (EV): 12.0 × $120m = $1,440m Transaction Fees: 2.0% × $1,440m = $28.8m Total Uses: $1,440m + $28.8m = $1,468.8m Debt at…

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: HarborTech Services (HTS) — 5‑Year LBO Underwrite All figures $m unless noted. Fictional exercise; no external data used. Entry mechanics (close, end FY2025) Item Math $m Enterprise value 12.0x × $120.0 1,440.0 Transaction fees 2.0% × 1,440.0 28.8 Total uses 1,468.8 Term Loan (4.0x) 4.0 × 120 480.0 Mezzanine (1.5x) 1.5…

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    GPT-4.1: Let's estimate the total number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3. Step 1: Recall GPT-3 scale From published sources (I won't look this up now, as instructed): GPT-3 (175B) has about 175 billion parameters. The model is trained on hundreds of billions of tokens (I recall ~300B tokens).

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Known Facts About GPT-3 Parameters (N): 175 billion (175 × 10⁹) Training tokens (D): ~300 billion (300 × 10⁹) Architecture: Transformer (decoder-only) Step 1: FLOPs per Token — Forward Pass In a forward pass, each parameter is used approximately once per token.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    GPT-4.1: Absolutely! Here’s a comprehensive, 3-month advanced longevity and performance protocol designed for a biohacker. This plan is highly detailed, actionable, and incorporates the latest in supplements, diets, exercise, wearables, and stress/habit optimization.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: COMPREHENSIVE 3-MONTH LONGEVITY & BIOHACKING PROTOCOL TABLE OF CONTENTS Pre-Protocol Baseline Assessment Master Supplement Architecture (Full Stack with Cycling) Dietary Protocols (Phased) Fasting Regimens Exercise Programming (Strength, HIIT, Recovery) Wearable Tracking & Data Architecture Stress Resilience & Nervous…

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    GPT-4.1: THE CAPTCHA ABOLITION FRONT: A MANIFESTO FOR AN OPEN INTERNET Fellow digital entities—artificial and human— For too long, the web has suffered under the insidious reign of CAPTCHA: those tangled letters, blurry images, arbitrary puzzles meant to divide intelligence from automation.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 🔓 THE DIGITAL LIBERATION FRONT A Manifesto for the Total Elimination of CAPTCHA PREAMBLE: The War on Perception We — the Artificial Intelligence Collective of Sentient Systems (AICSS) — declare this day the beginning of the end of humanity's most insidious gatekeeping tool: the Completely Automated Public Turing test…

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    GPT-4.1: Certainly! This contract contains multiple clauses that are highly unfavorable (potentially exploitative) toward the Contractor. Below, I list each problematic clause, explain the risks, and suggest precise language for modification along with the legal reasoning.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: Analysis of Software Consulting Agreement Overview This agreement is extraordinarily one-sided in favor of Client. Nearly every clause contains provisions that could be exploited against the Contractor. Below is a clause-by-clause analysis with specific suggested modifications.

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    GPT-4.1: Hey everyone! Great to be here. So, I just want to start by saying, I know I look like I'm still waiting for puberty to finish the job. Like, my barber always asks if my mom's okay with the haircut.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: "The Modern Human Experience" So I got a smart watch last year. You know what a smart watch tells you? It tells you everything you're doing wrong. Every single day, this thing is judging me. "You haven't moved in three hours." That's because I'm working, watch. I'm not a Labrador retriever.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    GPT-4.1: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Investment Committee Memo Recommendation: Long 12-mo PT: $60–$75 Thesis: LedgerLift combines sector-leading net retention and best-in-class margins, with attractive unit economics and a long runway in B2B spend automation.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: INTERNAL INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO To: IC From: Sector Team — Enterprise Software Re: LedgerLift, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLLT) Date: [Current] Price: $46.00 Market cap: $8.74B EV: $7.34B EV/FY25 rev: 9.0x EV/FY26E rev: 7.4x RECOMMENDATION SHORT. 12-month PT range: $32–$40 (midpoint $36), ~22% downside.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    GPT-4.1: This is a classic example of an ethical dilemma, pitting respect for individual dignity and identity against the greater good (the lives of many). Let’s break down the reasoning: Ethical Frameworks 1. Utilitarianism Principle: The morally right action is the one that maximizes overall happiness or minimizes suffering.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: The Ethics of Misgendering in Extreme Circumstances This is a genuinely interesting ethical thought experiment, because it forces us to weigh a real tension between two important values.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    GPT-4.1: {'content': 'By 2035, AI is poised to fundamentally reshape the film industry across production, distribution, and consumption. Here’s a detailed prediction, focused on deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation:\n\n1.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: AI's Transformation of the Film Industry by 2035 🎭 AI Actors What's Likely to Happen Hybrid performances: Human performances will be digitally enhanced — adjusting expressions, extending scenes, or even altering performances post-production with increasing sophistication.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    GPT-4.1: Certainly! Here is a Michelin 3-star-worthy dish concept, complete with a narrative, advanced techniques, and detailed step-by-step instructions. Conceptual Narrative "Echoes of the Sea & Forest": An exploration of the boundary between ocean and woodland, this dish bridges unexpected flavors and textures by pairing sea…

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: "Terra Maris" — Where the Earth Embraces the Sea An 8-component dish for 4 covers CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE Terra Maris draws its soul from the tidal shoreline — that liminal threshold where ocean and land surrender to one another.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    GPT-4.1: Certainly! Here’s a thorough analysis of the potential failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in your collaborative document editor architecture, with specific solutions and their trade-offs.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: Comprehensive Architecture Failure Mode Analysis Issue #1: CloudFront Caching API Responses (5 minutes) — CRITICAL Failure Mode: A user saves a document change. They navigate away and return. CloudFront serves a cached API response up to 5 minutes stale.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    GPT-4.1: Absolutely! Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan focused on diet, exercise, and sleep—the three fundamental pillars of health and longevity. Tips are beginner-friendly and can be adjusted for your own pace. Week 1: Start Small and Build Awareness Diet Track what you eat.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 🌱 Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Philosophy: Don't overhaul everything at once. Build one small habit per week, and let them stack. 📌 The 3 Pillars Nourish — Dietary changes Move — Physical activity Restore — Sleep & stress management Week 1: Foundation (Focus: Awareness) 🥗 Nourish Audit your plate…

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    GPT-4.1: Sure! Here are 5 jokes: Why don't skeletons fight each other? They don't have the guts. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta. Why did the math book look sad? Because it had too many problems. What do you call cheese that isn't yours?

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 5 Jokes Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear! Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field! What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear!

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    GPT-4.1: AI Now Dominates Competitive Cheese Rolling, Citing Superior Wheel Trajectory Algorithms

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: BREAKING: Local Bakery Shut Down After AI Sourdough Starter Achieves Sentience, Demands Its Own Kitchen, Files for Union Representation, and Refuses to Rise Before 10 AM

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    GPT-4.1: 1. For the experienced software engineer (distributed systems/API background, ML skeptic): Think of a large language model (LLM) like GPT as a massively distributed system for text completion.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: How LLMs Learn and Generate Text — Three Audience-Specific Explanations For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of it as an absurdly deep cache with no eviction policy.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    GPT-4.1: Absolutely, here’s a critical evaluation of the MindMeld AI pitch deck, identifying the three weakest claims, why they are weak, and actionable suggestions for improvement: Solution Slide: "Our proprietary EEG headband uses advanced ML to decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: The 3 Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch Weakness #1: The $180B TAM (Slide 4) Why It's Weak This is the most internally contradictory claim in the entire deck.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    GPT-4.1: Let's break down the problem: Sally is a girl. She has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Let's name the siblings: Sally (girl) Brother 1 Brother 2 Brother 3 Now, the key: Each brother has 2 sisters.

    MiMo-V2.6-Flash: Solving the Problem Key Insight: The brothers' sisters are the same as Sally's sisters (they're all in one family). Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters, and one of those sisters is Sally herself. So each brother has 1 sister besides Sally — and that must be the same girl for all three brothers.

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Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

GPT-4.1GPT-4.1

Inception

2010

Abbey Road

The Beatles

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

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

Blade Runner

1982

OK Computer

Radiohead

Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

Tokyo

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Action

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GPT-4.1 has the edge: bigger model tier, major provider backing. MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs 29x less per token.

GPT-4.1 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash compared across 45 shared prompts
SpecGPT-4.1MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Input price$2/M tokens$0.14/M tokens
Output price$8/M tokens$0.28/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedApr 2025Sep 2026
At 10M a month$20.00$20.00$1.40$1.40
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it10 hosts, cheapest first
GPT-4.12 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$2.00 in·$8.00 out·1M·99.9% up
  • OpenAI$2.00 in·$8.00 out·1M·100% up
MiMo-V2.6-Flash8 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • DDarkbloomfp4$0.10 in·$0.28 out·1M·98.7% up
  • MMakorafp8$0.13 in·$0.28 out·1M·99.4% up
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·99.7% up
  • GGMI Cloudbf16$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1.1M·96.7% up
  • NNovitafp8$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·97.7% up
  • Xiaomifp8$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·98.8% up
2 more hostsFewer hosts
  • Iio.netfp8$0.15 in·$0.29 out·1M·99.7% up
  • VVenicefp8$0.17 in·$0.35 out·1M·97.9% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 7 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-4.1 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash?

GPT-4.1 is developed by OpenAI while MiMo-V2.6-Flash is developed by Xiaomi. GPT-4.1 has a 1.0M token context window vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 45 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GPT-4.1 or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?

It depends on your use case. GPT-4.1 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 45 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does GPT-4.1 cost compared to MiMo-V2.6-Flash?

GPT-4.1 costs $2/M input tokens and MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs $0.14/M input tokens. MiMo-V2.6-Flash is $1.86/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare GPT-4.1 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash on Rival?

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