MiMo-V2-Flash vs o3-mini

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.

MiMo-V2-Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

MiMo-V2-Flash's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 55 against 49.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is IFEval, 84 to 93.9. o3-mini does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o3-mini gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for MiMo-V2-Flash.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiMo-V2-Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o3-mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Knowledge

o3-mini

MiMo-V2-Flash

65.5

o3-mini

82.1

79
MMLU
86.9
78
GPQA
77.2
76
SuperGPQA
-
74
OpenBookQA
-
72
MMLU-Pro
-
14
HLE
-

Coding

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

55

o3-mini

49.3

71
HumanEval
-
45
SWE-bench Verified
49.3
49
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

o3-mini

MiMo-V2-Flash

79.5

o3-mini

87.3

79
AIME 2023
-
81
AIME 2024
87.3
80
AIME 2025
-
75
HMMT Feb 2023
-
77
HMMT Feb 2024
-
76
HMMT Feb 2025
-
78
BRUMO 2025
-
90
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

MiMo-V2-Flash
76
SimpleQA
-
74
MuSR
-
85
BBH
-

Instruction Following

o3-mini

MiMo-V2-Flash

84

o3-mini

93.9

84
IFEval
93.9

Multilingual

MiMo-V2-Flash
83
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, MiMo-V2-Flash or o3-mini?

MiMo-V2-Flash is ahead overall, 71 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is IFEval, where the scores are 84 and 93.9.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, MiMo-V2-Flash or o3-mini?

o3-mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 65.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, MiMo-V2-Flash or o3-mini?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 55 versus 49.3. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, MiMo-V2-Flash or o3-mini?

o3-mini has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 87.3 versus 79.5. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, MiMo-V2-Flash or o3-mini?

o3-mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.9 versus 84. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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