Qwen3.5-9B 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
- Both cost about the same at a typical 3:1 input/output mix.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 262K tokens.
- Qwen3.5-9B output costs $0.13 per 1M via Darkbloom, against the list price of $0.25.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the newer model (released 2026-09-21).
| Qwen3.5-9B | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Qwen | Xiaomi |
| Released | 2026-03-10 | 2026-09-21 |
| Input / 1M | $0.17 | $0.14 |
| Output / 1M | $0.25 | $0.28 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.0028 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.19 | $0.175 |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 236K | 131K |
| Accepts | text, image, video | text, image, audio, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 6 | 10 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.13 | $0.238 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | No data | — |
Cost calculator
Qwen3.5-9B
$13.95 per month$0.47 per day
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
$12.60 per month$0.42 per day
MiMo-V2.6-Flash saves $1.35 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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