# Xiaomi MiMo

196 Hacker News commenters recommended Xiaomi MiMo and 71 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 0.08 years (6 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** A very cheap, fast AI model that many find matches Western flagships for coding and instruction-following, though it can overthink for long stretches and trails top models.

## Why people recommend it

- Very low price, great value (11 comments): "the latest versions of Kimi, MiMo, and GLM (pre-5.2) had already surpassed Sonnet in terms of output quality for a fraction of the price" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576189)) "The cost is unbelievably low, and the quality of intelligence I get is equivalent to when I was working mostly with Anthropic models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732870)) "This looks great in terms of cost and capabilities, truly pushing the frontier forward in terms of open weight light weight models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792953))
- Rivals Claude and Western flagships (9 comments): "This seems great! Between just these two providers, this is a couple pairs of models that seem suitable for replacing Claude Sonnet and Claude Haiku" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293440)) "the latest versions of Kimi, MiMo, and GLM (pre-5.2) had already surpassed Sonnet in terms of output quality for a fraction of the price" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576189)) "The cost is unbelievably low, and the quality of intelligence I get is equivalent to when I was working mostly with Anthropic models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732870))
- Extremely fast generation (8 comments): "There are open models with groundbreaking innovations, like MiMo-2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed which you simply can't get anywhere else" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628408)) "It tops the intelligence vs cost Pareto frontier and, uniquely for a Chinese model, does well in response time too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794134)) "Having played around with MiMo v2.5.0-Pro, I am 100% sure it could have done what Gemini 3 Flash did." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503896))
- Follows instructions, solid for coding (6 comments): "coding with mimo v2.5 pro or dsv4pro or qwen 3.7 max and doing a final review with 5.5 has worked really well for me for infra stuff" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505239)) "It seems conservative with generally good "instincts", getting things working quickly without too much complexity." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300482)) "perfectly capable of following my spec and then poking holes in the implementation till there are none left" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811750))

## What people warn about

- Long thinking, loops, slow output (4 comments): "sometimes I ask a personal agent a question and mimo spends 10min validating the answer in a few different ways" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303412)) "the models spend a lot of time on its CoT, making effective output per second many times slower" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50157278)) "MiMo wins handsomely if you want to think about your code for minutes at a time as you write." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497140))
- Weaker than top frontier models (4 comments): "the quality of MiMo's work matched mine for a quick experiment, though not that the code was free from subtle bugs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798994)) "A committee of good-not-great models (DeepSeek, MiMo, Gemma 4) cannot replicate the accuracy of Opus by itself." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483384)) "the model is rather weak to the point where I'm not sure it's particularly useful for most people" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457654))
- UltraSpeed mode can run up bills (2 comments): "Having played around with MiMo v2.5.0-Pro, I am 100% sure it could have done what Gemini 3 Flash did." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503896)) "Pretty cool, although I can't help but think this would be a very easy to way rack up a GARGANTUAN bill." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452788))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claude Opus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-opus.md): 3331 recommend
- [OpenAI GPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-5.md): 1205 recommend
- [Claude Sonnet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-sonnet.md): 854 recommend
- [DeepSeek V4 Flash](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-v4-flash.md): 828 recommend
- [Fable](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fable.md): 823 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Xiaomi MiMo", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mimo/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).