Xiaomi's AI now rivals Claude and GPT — for 5x less

Xiaomi — the company most people know for smartphones — just launched an AI model that competes head-to-head with Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2. And it costs a fraction of the price.

MiMo-V2-Pro is a trillion-parameter model with 42 billion active parameters, a 1-million-token context window (roughly 750,000 words), and benchmark scores that place it 8th globally and 2nd among all Chinese AI models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

A phone maker beating AI giants at coding

Xiaomi claims MiMo-V2-Pro's coding ability surpasses Claude 4.6 Sonnet, one of the most popular models for software development. On SWE-bench Verified (a standard test where AI tries to fix real bugs in open-source projects), MiMo scores 78.0 — compared to Claude Sonnet's 79.6 and Claude Opus's 80.8.

That's not just close — it's within striking distance of the most expensive models from Anthropic and OpenAI. And it gets there at a fraction of the price:

How it stacks up on benchmarks

Here's how MiMo-V2-Pro compares to the biggest names in AI across key tasks:

MiMo-V2-Pro beats GPT-5.2 on most benchmarks and consistently trails Claude Opus by only a few points — impressive for a model that costs 5–8x less.

Built for AI agents, not just chat

Unlike most chatbot-first models, MiMo-V2-Pro was specifically designed for agentic workflows — meaning it's optimized for AI that takes actions (browsing the web, writing code, managing files) rather than just answering questions.

The model uses a Hybrid Attention architecture with a 7:1 ratio that helps it process its massive 1-million-token context window efficiently. It also includes a Multi-Token Prediction layer that generates text faster by predicting multiple words at once.

Xiaomi says an early test version (codenamed "Hunter Alpha") already surpassed 1 trillion tokens in usage on OpenRouter, a popular platform for accessing AI models.

The full MiMo family

MiMo-V2-Pro isn't alone. Xiaomi launched a complete AI product lineup:

Who should pay attention

If you're a developer paying for Claude or GPT API access, MiMo-V2-Pro could dramatically cut your costs while delivering competitive results. At $1 per million input tokens vs Claude Opus's $5, that's an 80% savings.

If you're building AI-powered tools, the agentic focus means MiMo-V2-Pro is purpose-built for tasks like automated coding, web browsing, and workflow orchestration.

If you're watching the AI race, this is a signal that the gap between frontier labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) and challenger companies is shrinking fast. A phone maker is now within a few percentage points of the best models in the world.

Try it yourself

MiMo-V2-Pro is available now through Xiaomi's API and integrates with tools like OpenClaw, OpenCode, KiloCode, and Cline. New developers get one week of free API access.

# Access via the MiMo API
curl https://api.mimo.xiaomi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "mimo-v2-pro", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'

Visit mimo.xiaomi.com for the full documentation and API access.

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