Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
86
MiMo-V2.5-Pro
82
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiMo-V2.5-Pro only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Agentic
+3.1 difference
Coding
+9.2 difference
Knowledge
+25.7 difference
Claude Sonnet 4.6
MiMo-V2.5-Pro
$3 / $15
$1 / $3
44 t/s
N/A
1.48s
N/A
200K
1M
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiMo-V2.5-Pro only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 86 to 82. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Sonnet 4.6's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 73.7 against 48. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 59.1% to 68.4%. MiMo-V2.5-Pro does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $1.00 input / $3.00 output per 1M tokens for MiMo-V2.5-Pro. That is roughly 5.0x on output cost alone. MiMo-V2.5-Pro is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Sonnet 4.6 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-Pro gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 86 to 82. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 59.1% and 68.4%.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.7 versus 48. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 57.2. MiMo-V2.5-Pro stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
MiMo-V2.5-Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.4 versus 65.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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