Here is how DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Max), built by DeepSeek, lines up against MiMo-V2.6-Flash from Xiaomi. Cost is where they split the most, with MiMo-V2.6-Flash working out at about 9% of DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max's blended rate. No hands-on testing went into this write-up; it summarises the recorded benchmark, price and speed data for both models.
Token pricing and a sample bill
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max lists $1.32 per million input tokens and $3.96 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.6-Flash lists $0.14 and $0.28. For output tokens, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max is 14 times the price of MiMo-V2.6-Flash.
Take 1 million input tokens and 200,000 output tokens: that comes to $2.11 on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max and $0.20 on MiMo-V2.6-Flash. A bigger example, a support assistant answering 10,000 conversations of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, costs $46.20 on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max and $4.20 on MiMo-V2.6-Flash: a gap of $42.00. Blended at three input tokens per output token, the effective rates are $1.98 for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max and $0.175 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash.
Overall capability: 3.6 points apart
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max records 23.1 on the intelligence index and MiMo-V2.6-Flash records 26.7. A lead of this size is hard to dismiss as noise. In relative terms, MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores 16% higher.
For context, that places DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max 72nd and MiMo-V2.6-Flash 64th out of 109 scored models still on offer.
The catalogue does not yet split either model's score into coding and math indexes.
Score per dollar
A blunt value measure, blended price over intelligence score, puts DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max at $0.086 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash at $0.0066 per point. With the higher score and the lower cost per point, MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the better value per point on these numbers.
Which is newer
The release dates are August 13, 2026 for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max and September 21, 2026 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash, 39 days apart. That is close enough to count them as the same generation.
Speed and latency
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max generates about 67 tokens per second and MiMo-V2.6-Flash about 36 tokens per second. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max is ahead by 87% on throughput. Time to first token is 1.7 seconds for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max and 3.5 seconds for MiMo-V2.6-Flash. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max gets to its first token twice as fast.
For a 1,000-token response, first token plus generation comes to roughly 17 seconds on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max and 31 seconds on MiMo-V2.6-Flash.

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