Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude 4 Sonnet
52
MiMo-V2.5
74
Pick MiMo-V2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Coding
+16.6 difference
Claude 4 Sonnet
MiMo-V2.5
$null / $null
$0.4 / $2
40 t/s
N/A
1.33s
N/A
200K
1M
Pick MiMo-V2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or 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 52. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
MiMo-V2.5 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 4 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 4 Sonnet.
MiMo-V2.5 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 74 to 52.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.7 versus 56.1. MiMo-V2.5 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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