OpenAI gpt-oss-safeguard-20b vs Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is 1.3× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 131K tokens.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the newer model (released 2026-09-21).
| gpt-oss-safeguard-20b | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | OpenAI | Xiaomi |
| Released | 2025-10-29 | 2026-09-21 |
| Input / 1M | $0.075 | $0.14 |
| Output / 1M | $0.30 | $0.28 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.037 | $0.0028 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.131 | $0.175 |
| Context | 131K | 1M |
| Max output | 66K | 131K |
| Accepts | text | text, image, audio, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 10 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.30 | $0.238 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
$9.00 per month$0.30 per day
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
$12.60 per month$0.42 per day
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b saves $3.60 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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