MiMo Code
Ranked 13 of 41 coding agents by recommenders
Recommended as a free open-source coding agent from Xiaomi's MiMo models, praised for its UI, speed and no-account use. Common caveat: critics dispute whether the subscription beats API pricing.
Recommended as a free open-source coding agent from Xiaomi's MiMo models, praised for its UI, speed and no-account use. Common caveat: critics dispute whether the subscription beats API pricing.
48 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 24
- criticize it
- 24
- approval share
- 50%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 24 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1 recommender for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong underlying MiMo model
“Having a highly recommended model behind the tool makes it worth further investigation.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” “What a transformation by Xiaomi to build almost frontier level models”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” “This is my favorite of the Chinese models I have tried.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” Open harness from model maker
“I think it is great that they built it on top of open code.”
Comment from 12 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” “they are dropping a Harness for their own model? Amazing.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” “One of the better open harnesses out there at the moment.”
Comment from 17 Sep 2026 in “Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Subscription costs more than API
“the subscription plan costs literally the same thing as just paying API-per-token pricing”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” “my math says the subscription plan gives less value than the API”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” “give 1000x of "credits" but charge in same old tokens.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” Locked-in harness, not tweakable
“I like that they do their thing, but I'd be happier if there was a harness that could be tweaked”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” “I don't like CC-style agent lock-in, regardless if it's Anthropic or Xiaomi doing it.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” Data privacy and telemetry concerns
“China, which has laws to exfiltrate your data and send it back to the government”
Comment from 12 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source” “telemetry enabled by default and named "analysis" is not great.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source”
Other coding agents people recommend
The four most recommended other coding agents, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 571 | 993 | 37% | 12 | 1 yr46 owners | — |
| oh-my-pi | 104 | 28 | 79% | 9 | 2 mo5 owners | Approved |
| Grok Build CLI | 66 | 114 | 37% | 6 | — | — |
| DeepSeek Harness | 63 | 28 | 69% | 4 | 1 mo5 owners | Approved |
| MiMo CodeThis page | 24 | 24 | 50% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
40 of the 49 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“One of the better open harnesses out there at the moment.”
“MiMo Code is just cute as hell”
“They did remove the opencode provider though and the desktop and web interfaces.”
“genuinely someone's research project to create a better agent harness”
“Mimo Code has grown on me”
“It takes 200!!! hyper-inflation credits for ONE single token of uncached input.”
“I like that they do their thing, but I'd be happier if there was a harness that could be tweaked”
“I thought it deserved more.”
“I gets the job done for me.”
“Authorization for their own API doesn't work.. the web 'Authorize' page denies it, eventually goes through, but then you get stuck on 'Waiting for authorization' in the app.”
“They don’t really subsidize their token plans.”
“it adds some nice features to try out while not being a full orchestrator metapackage”
“it's nowhere near Sonnet 4.6 in terms of capabilities”
“MiMo and DeepSeek, even MiniMax, are way cheaper and arguably better”
“I think it is great that they built it on top of open code.”
“China, which has laws to exfiltrate your data and send it back to the government”
“my math says the subscription plan gives less value than the API”
“attaches usage restrictions that are probably incompatible with the license”
“isn't this just opencode with a different logo?”
“I prefer this to Anthropics "in the next 5 hours you have X tokens to spend, and we are not going to tell you what X is"”
“give 1000x of "credits" but charge in same old tokens.”
“This is actually, impressive!”
“This is super exciting, can't wait to try it out”
“benchmaxxing when they end up writing their coding harness in TypeScript npm slop”
“the subscription plan costs literally the same thing as just paying API-per-token pricing”
“But still, it has that info from your request, it should use it.”
“What a transformation by Xiaomi to build almost frontier level models”
“I don't like CC-style agent lock-in, regardless if it's Anthropic or Xiaomi doing it.”
“they are dropping a Harness for their own model? Amazing.”
“The installation method they officially propagate is dangerous.”
“macOS binary (mimocode-darwin-arm64.zip ) seems broken”
“Having a highly recommended model behind the tool makes it worth further investigation.”
“Only worked for about 5m, then Too many requests.”
“Being able to use it without having to make an account is amazing for friction reduction.”
“telemetry enabled by default and named "analysis" is not great.”
“This is my favorite of the Chinese models I have tried.”
“very pleasant so far, nice UI and seems to respond faster than Claude Code”
“Sounds like they slapped in a bunch of common plugins and released it as a product to promote the free-for-a-limited-time use of their new coding AI service.”
“It looks like it's meant to be a batteries-included agent to promote their free-for-a-limited time AI service”
“Why not just contribute to OpenCode instead of creating a clone”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.