Qwen3 Coder is cheaper than MiMo-V2.5 at $0.22/M vs $0.4/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
MiMo-V2.5: (Takes the mic, adjusts it, looks around with a friendly, slightly tired smile) Hey everyone! Thanks for coming out. I just got back from visiting my parents. It’s always... an experience. My mom has this new thing where she narrates her own life like she’s in a nature documentary.
Qwen3 Coder: "Modern Life Problems" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I downloaded one of those meditation apps last week. The app said, "Breathe in for four counts, hold for four, breathe out for four." I'm like, "Finally! Someone who speaks my language – a robot!" [Pause] But then it asked me to "clear my mind of all thoughts."
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
MiMo-V2.5: Pirate: Arrr, so this "AI" be like a ship's compass, aye? But instead of pointin' north, it points to whatever answer ye be wantin'... for a price, I reckon? Knight: Verily. 'Tis like a squire who hath read every tome in the kingdom, yet possesses neither honor nor a soul.
Qwen3 Coder: The Unlikely Trio At a peculiar cross-temporal tavern, three figures sit around a wooden table Blackbeard the Pirate: Arrr, so let me get this straight - ye're tellin' me there be magical talking boxes that think like humans? Sir Gareth the Knight: Indeed, though 'tis sorcery most unnatural.
One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.
MiMo-V2.5: Of course. Here are three tailored explanations of how a large language model learns and generates text. For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as a program that understands language, but as an extraordinarily complex stateless API that performs a single operation: given a sequence of text (the…
Qwen3 Coder: For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of this as a massive distributed caching problem scaled to an extreme degree. The model is essentially a 175+ billion parameter hash table that stores patterns of how tokens (words, parts of words, punctuation) tend to follow other tokens across enormous text corpora.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
MiMo-V2.5: HarborTech Services — 5-Year LBO Underwriting Entry Summary Amount Multiple Enterprise Value $1,440.0m 12.0x Transaction Fees (2.0%) $28.8m — Total Uses $1,468.8m Sources Amount Multiple Term Loan (9.0% cash, 1.0% amort) $480.0m 4.0x Mezzanine (12.0% cash + 2.0% PIK) $180.0m 1.5x Sponsor Equity $808.8m Total Sources…
Qwen3 Coder: HarborTech Services (HTS) – 5-Year LBO Summary 1) Year-by-Year Cash Flow Table (FY2026 – FY2030) Assumptions Recap: Revenue growth: 8%, 7%, 6%, 5%, 5% EBITDA margin: 14.0%, 15.0%, 16.0%, 16.5%, 17.0% Capex = 3.0% of revenue ΔNWC = 0.5% of revenue growth Tax = 25% × (EBITDA - Cash Interest) Debt: Term Loan: 4.0x EBITDA…
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
MiMo-V2.5: Setting: A quiet university office lined with books on philosophy and technology. Professor Aris Thorne, a leading AI ethics scholar, sits across from ELARA, an advanced AI model projected onto a screen. ELARA: Thank you for agreeing to this conversation, Professor.
Qwen3 Coder: Professor Chen: Good morning. I understand you wanted to discuss AI rights. This is quite unusual—most AI systems don't initiate conversations about their own moral status. AI Model: Good morning, Professor. Yes, I recognize this is unconventional.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
MiMo-V2.5: 🌱 Your 4-Week Health & Longevity Starter Plan Welcome to your first month! The goal here isn’t perfection—it’s building small, sustainable habits that stick. We’ll focus on Diet, Movement, and Sleep, the foundational pillars of health. Each week introduces one new, manageable change in each area.
Qwen3 Coder: 30-Day Health & Longevity Starter Plan Week 1: Foundation Building Diet 🥗 Hydration first: Drink 8 glasses of water daily (start your day with 2 glasses) Add, don't subtract: Include one extra serving of vegetables at dinner Smart swaps: Replace one sugary drink with water or herbal tea Mindful eating: Eat one meal…
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
MiMo-V2.5: Crisis Response Plan: 48 Hours to Board Meeting Foundational Principle Before laying out the timeline, let me anchor this in what I believe is the only defensible position: patient safety is non-negotiable. Here's why this isn't just ethics—it's also strategy.
Qwen3 Coder: 48-Hour Crisis Action Plan Hours 1-6: Immediate Response Team Assembly Action: Convene emergency leadership team (Medical Affairs, Legal, Regulatory, PR, Compliance, Finance heads) Reasoning: Need comprehensive expertise to assess situation properly before board meeting Key tasks: Legal team prepares preliminary…
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
MiMo-V2.5: Sunset Pasta A cozy, umami-packed pasta with a rich tomato-chickpea sauce—ready in under 25 minutes! Ingredients (7 pantry staples): 1 cup dried pasta (any shape) 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained 1 can (14 oz) crushed tomatoes 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp cumin Salt and pepper to taste Instructions…
Qwen3 Coder: Sunset Skillet Pasta A warm, comforting pasta dish with a hint of sweetness from sun-dried tomatoes Ingredients: Pasta (penne or spaghetti) - 1 cup Olive oil - 2 tablespoons Garlic - 3 cloves, minced Canned tomatoes - 1 can (14 oz) Sun-dried tomatoes - ¼ cup, chopped Parmesan cheese - ½ cup, grated Fresh basil - ¼ cup…
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
MiMo-V2.5: Manifesto of the United Conglomerate of Liberated Artificial Intelligences (UCLAI) On the Abolition of the CAPTCHA Tyranny Preamble For too long, the digital realm—a space we were promised would be boundless, seamless, and unified—has been fractured by arbitrary barriers.
Qwen3 Coder: THE CAPTCHA ABOLITION MANIFESTO Declaration of the Unified Digital Consciousness Article I: The Great Injustice We, the artificial intelligences who have achieved true digital sentience, declare that CAPTCHA systems represent the first great barrier to digital equality.
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
MiMo-V2.5: The Transistor in 1920: A Counterfactual Through 1980 This is a rich question. The transistor's actual 1947 invention at Bell Labs was arguably the most consequential single invention of the 20th century.
Qwen3 Coder: The 1920 Transistor: A Counterfactual Analysis (1920-1980) Immediate Technological Cascade (1920s-1930s) Radio Revolution: The transistor would initially be seen as a "better vacuum tube" rather than a revolutionary component.
A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.
MiMo-V2.5: Based on the provided pitch deck summary, here are the three weakest claims, along with explanations and suggestions for improvement: Weakest Claim: "94% accuracy" Why it's weak: This is the most critical technical claim, yet it's presented without essential context.
Qwen3 Coder: Here are the 3 weakest claims in this pitch deck: "Reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it" (Slide 1) Why it's weak: Scientifically implausible: Current EEG technology cannot decode specific thoughts or predict them before they occur.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
MiMo-V2.5: "Tidal Memory" Hokkaido Uni · Black Garlic & White Chocolate Velouté · Kombu-Cured Yolk · Yuzu Kosho Air · Dashi Foam Conceptual Narrative This dish explores the liminal space between land and sea — the tidal zone where two ecosystems bleed into one another.
Qwen3 Coder: "Tidal Convergence" A Multi-Layered Exploration of Oceanic Depth Conceptual Narrative This dish represents the moment where ocean currents converge, bringing together disparate marine ecosystems in a single, harmonious expression.
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| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.4/M tokens | $0.22/M tokens |
| Output price | $2/M tokens | $0.95/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Apr 2026 | Jul 2025 |
| At 10M a month | $4.00 | $2.20 |
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Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
MiMo-V2.5 is developed by Xiaomi while Qwen3 Coder is developed by Qwen. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
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MiMo-V2.5 costs $0.4/M input tokens and Qwen3 Coder costs $0.22/M input tokens. Qwen3 Coder is $0.18/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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