Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
42
MiMo-V2.5
74
Pick MiMo-V2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Coding
+7.1 difference
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
MiMo-V2.5
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$0.4 / $2
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200K
1M
Pick MiMo-V2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
MiMo-V2.5 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 74 to 42. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
MiMo-V2.5's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 56.1 against 49.
MiMo-V2.5 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. MiMo-V2.5 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
MiMo-V2.5 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 74 to 42.
MiMo-V2.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.1 versus 49. Claude 3.5 Sonnet stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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