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MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs MiMo V2.6 Flash

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

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MiniMax M3.1 FlashMinimaxminimax/minimax-m3.1-flash
MiMo V2.6 FlashXiaomixiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash
Creator
Minimax
Xiaomi
Released
Oct 19, 2026
Sep 21, 2026
Context window
1M
1.05M (best)
Max output
524K (best)
131K
Input / 1MLowest provider price
$0.15
$0.14 (best)
Output / 1MLowest provider price
$0.60
$0.28 (best)
Providers
1
1
IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index
29.1 (best)
26.7
Accepts
Text, Image, Video
Text, Image, Video, Audio
Produces
Text
Text
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Yes

MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs MiMo V2.6 Flash: summary

MiniMax M3.1 Flash and MiMo V2.6 Flash are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

MiniMax M3.1 Flash, from Minimax, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs $0.15/1M input and $0.60/1M output tokens and scores 29.1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

MiMo V2.6 Flash, from Xiaomi, has a 1,048,576-token context window, costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens and scores 26.7 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

MiMo V2.6 Flash is the cheapest on input, 1.1× cheaper than the next model, MiMo V2.6 Flash has the largest context window and MiniMax M3.1 Flash scores highest for intelligence.

Switch with one line

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash", messages=[...])
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Benchmark scores sourced from ArtificialAnalysis