Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Flash
Shares rank 56 of 72 language models by recommenders
People recommend it for fast responses, strong benchmark scores and low cost per task. One commenter notes that rival StepFun models beat it on a performance leaderboard.
People recommend it for fast responses, strong benchmark scores and low cost per task. One commenter notes that rival StepFun models beat it on a performance leaderboard.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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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
Low cost per run
“the Mimo models are very interesting, end-to-end pricing wise especially”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “Introspective Diffusion Language Models” “at double the speed and for $0.003 instead of $0.07”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)” “scores 8% higher in 109 seconds for $0.003”
Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer” - Comment from 12 Feb 2026 in “MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified”
Fast responses
“Xiaomi's mimo-v2-flash is great if you care about speed and performance”
Comment from 3 Apr 2026 in “Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents” “at double the speed and for $0.003 instead of $0.07”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)” Strong benchmark scores
“I have an agentic benchmark and it shows Mercury 2 at 19/25 in 58 seconds and Mimo v2 Flash at 22/25 in 109 seconds”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “Introspective Diffusion Language Models” “scores 8% higher in 109 seconds for $0.003”
Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer” Rated above rival models
“The real distant second in my experience is mimo flash v2”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers” “the x-flash seemed clearly better”
Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Xiaomi MiMo for Desktop”
Other language models people recommend
The four most recommended other language models, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus | 3,331 | 2,746 | 55% | 13 | 4 mo156 owners | — |
| OpenAI GPT | 1,205 | 987 | 55% | 13 | 6 mo47 owners | — |
| Claude Sonnet | 854 | 586 | 59% | 13 | 6 mo46 owners | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 828 | 223 | 79% | 8 | 1 mo24 owners | Approved |
| Xiaomi MiMo-V2-FlashThis page | 8 | 1 | 89% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Even flash reached 60.7% by step 12, and it's on step 16 now.”
“the x-flash seemed clearly better”
“the Mimo models are very interesting, end-to-end pricing wise especially”
“I have an agentic benchmark and it shows Mercury 2 at 19/25 in 58 seconds and Mimo v2 Flash at 22/25 in 109 seconds”
“Xiaomi's mimo-v2-flash is great if you care about speed and performance”
“at double the speed and for $0.003 instead of $0.07”
“I doubt it works well because Mimo V2 Pro is beaten by stepfun even at performance leaderboard”
“scores 8% higher in 109 seconds for $0.003”
“The real distant second in my experience is mimo flash v2”
“works surprisingly well for the cost”
“picked 5 that stood out for being genuinely useful or technically interesting”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.