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Updated Aug 2026

MiMo-V2.5vsQwen3.8 Flash

Qwen3.8 Flash is cheaper than MiMo-V2.5 at $0.15/M vs $0.4/M input tokens.

MiMo-V2.5 and Qwen3.8 Flash compared across 8 shared prompts
SpecMiMo-V2.5Qwen3.8 Flash
Input price$0.4/M tokens$0.15/M tokens
Output price$2/M tokens$0.47/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedApr 2026Aug 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 3 of the 8 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

MiMo-V2.5169 words
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…
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Qwen3.8 Flash147 words
Moon Halo Cookies A soft, golden sugar cookie with crisp edges and a tender center—made with just 7 pantry staples. Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 10 minutes Total time: 20 minutes Makes: About 16 cookies Ingredients 1/2 cup butter, softened 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour…
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

MiMo-V2.5694 words
🌱 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.
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Qwen3.8 Flash368 words
1-Month Beginner Health & Longevity Plan Focus areas: Nutrition, Movement, Sleep Week 1: Build the basics Nutrition Add 1 serving of vegetables to 2 meals per day. Drink water with each meal. Choose protein at most meals: eggs, beans, tofu, chicken, fish, yogurt. Movement Walk 10–15 minutes daily.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

MiMo-V2.5758 words
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…
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Qwen3.8 Flash983 words
For an experienced software engineer Training a large language model is not “just” making it guess the next word in isolation. It is fitting an enormous parameterized function to predict the next token conditioned on all previous tokens in a sequence.
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Our Verdict
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5
Qwen3.8 Flash
Qwen3.8 Flash

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Qwen3.8 Flash costs 4.3x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

MiMo-V2.5
Input
$0.40
Output
$2.00
Qwen3.8 Flash
Input
$0.15
2.7× cheaper
Output
$0.47
4.3× cheaper

Qwen3.8 Flash is cheaper on both: 2.7× input, 4.3× output.

Where to run it

7 hosts, cheapest first

MiMo-V2.56 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
GGMI Cloudfp8$0.12 in·$0.24 out·1.1M·96.1% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.13 in·$0.27 out·262k·99.6% upXiaomifp8$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·98.8% upNNovitafp8$0.17 in·$0.34 out·1M·98% upSStreamLake$0.17 in·$0.34 out·1M·92.8% upVVenicefp8$0.40 in·$2.00 out·1M·99.1% up
Qwen3.8 Flash1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$0.15 in·$0.47 out·1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 22 Sep 2026.

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FAQ

Common questions

MiMo-V2.5 is developed by Xiaomi while Qwen3.8 Flash is developed by Qwen. MiMo-V2.5 has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3.8 Flash's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 8 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. MiMo-V2.5 and Qwen3.8 Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 8 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

MiMo-V2.5 costs $0.4/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 Flash costs $0.15/M input tokens. Qwen3.8 Flash is $0.25/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of MiMo-V2.5 and Qwen3.8 Flash across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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