As of August 21, 2026, MiMo-V2-Flash is 50% cheaper per million tokens than Grok-3 Mini. Grok-3 Mini is $0.30 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens versus MiMo-V2-Flash at $0.10 / $0.30. Sources: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing
Sources: xAI API pricing (https://docs.x.ai/docs/models); AnotherWrapper LLM pricing (https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing)
Grok-3 Mini
xAI
Input
$0.30
Output
$0.50
MiMo-V2-Flash
Xiaomi
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.30
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Grok-3 MiniMiMo-V2-FlashVerdict
Both models are closely matched on benchmarks. MiMo-V2-Flash has the pricing advantage, making it the better value unless Grok-3 Mini's specific capabilities are critical to your workflow.
As of August 21, 2026, MiMo-V2-Flash is 50% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. MiMo-V2-Flash costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens ($0.40 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Grok-3 Mini costs $0.30 / $0.50 per million tokens ($0.80 blended). Sources: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Grok-3 Mini xAI API pricing is $0.30 input and $0.50 output per million tokens via xAI. MiMo-V2-Flash Xiaomi API pricing is $0.10 input and $0.30 output per million tokens via Xiaomi. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
MiMo-V2-Flash has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 73.4%. Grok-3 Mini does not have that eval on this page yet.
Grok-3 Mini supports a 128K token context window, while MiMo-V2-Flash supports 256K tokens. MiMo-V2-Flash offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Grok-3 Mini and MiMo-V2-Flash are tied across 2 shared benchmarks. Check the table for category-level strengths. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Grok-3 Mini and MiMo-V2-Flash are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, MiMo-V2-Flash has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Grok-3 Mini through xAI and MiMo-V2-Flash through Xiaomi with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published xAI API pricing and Xiaomi API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Grok-3 Mini supports up to 8K output tokens per request, while MiMo-V2-Flash supports up to 16K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Grok-3 Mini has a measured throughput of approximately 100 tokens/second. Throughput data for MiMo-V2-Flash is not yet available. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Grok-3 Mini or MiMo-V2-Flash from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Grok-3 Mini costs $0.30/M input and $0.50/M output. MiMo-V2-Flash costs $0.10/M input and $0.30/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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