GLM-5.3 Max vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash: price, speed and benchmarks

GLM-5.3 Max leads the intelligence index 31.7 to 26.7. MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs 92% less on blended price. Benchmarks, sample bills, speed and a verdict.

Metric	GLM-5.3 (Max)	MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Intelligence Index	31.7	26.7
Input price (per 1M tokens)	$1.40	$0.14
Output price (per 1M tokens)	$4.40	$0.28
Output speed (tokens/s)	74	36
Time to first token	1.7s	3.5s
Release date	2026-08-18	2026-09-21

Metric

GLM-5.3 (Max)

MiMo-V2.6-Flash

Intelligence Index

31.7

26.7

Input price (per 1M tokens)

$1.40

$0.14

Output price (per 1M tokens)

$4.40

$0.28

Output speed (tokens/s)

Time to first token

1.7s

3.5s

Release date

2026-08-18

2026-09-21

Here is how GLM-5.3 (Max), built by Z AI, lines up against MiMo-V2.6-Flash from Xiaomi. What follows is built entirely from tracked data, so where the catalogue is silent, this page says so instead of guessing. Cost is where they split the most, with MiMo-V2.6-Flash working out at about 8% of GLM-5.3 Max's blended rate.

Price per token

Per million tokens, GLM-5.3 Max charges $1.40 for input and $4.40 for output, while MiMo-V2.6-Flash charges $0.14 and $0.28. For output tokens, GLM-5.3 Max is 16 times the price of MiMo-V2.6-Flash.

Take 1 million input tokens and 200,000 output tokens: that comes to $2.28 on GLM-5.3 Max and $0.20 on MiMo-V2.6-Flash. Scale it up to extracting fields from 20,000 pages of 1,500 tokens into 150-token records and the bill is $55.20 for GLM-5.3 Max against $5.04 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash.

When they came out

The release dates are August 18, 2026 for GLM-5.3 Max and September 21, 2026 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash, 34 days apart. They are effectively contemporaries.

Speed and latency

GLM-5.3 Max generates about 74 tokens per second and MiMo-V2.6-Flash about 36 tokens per second. That makes GLM-5.3 Max roughly 2.1 times as fast at writing. The wait for the first token averages 1.7 seconds on GLM-5.3 Max against 3.5 seconds on MiMo-V2.6-Flash. In an interactive app, GLM-5.3 Max will feel noticeably more responsive.

Put together, an 800-token answer would take about 13 seconds from GLM-5.3 Max and 26 seconds from MiMo-V2.6-Flash, counting the first-token wait.

How the intelligence index compares

GLM-5.3 Max records 31.7 on the intelligence index and MiMo-V2.6-Flash records 26.7. That is a clear margin for an index that averages many evaluations.

Across the 109 active models with an intelligence score in the catalogue, GLM-5.3 Max ranks 47th and MiMo-V2.6-Flash ranks 64th.

The catalogue does not yet split either model's score into coding and math indexes.

Score per dollar

Dividing the blended price by the intelligence index gives a rough cost per point: $0.068 for GLM-5.3 Max and $0.0066 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash, per million tokens. So GLM-5.3 Max buys its higher score at a premium, while MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the value pick, paying 90% less per point.

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.3 Max better than MiMo-V2.6-Flash?

Neither wins everywhere: GLM-5.3 Max scores higher on the intelligence index, 31.7 to 26.7; MiMo-V2.6-Flash is 92% cheaper on blended price; and GLM-5.3 Max streams output 2.1 times as fast.

Which model has lower latency?

GLM-5.3 Max generates output faster, at 74 tokens per second against 36 tokens per second. GLM-5.3 Max reaches its first token sooner (1.7 seconds against 3.5 seconds).

Where do these numbers come from?

The figures are the recorded benchmark, price and speed data in Franklin AI's model catalogue. This page is written from that data automatically; neither model was tested by hand for it.

Are GLM-5.3 Max and MiMo-V2.6-Flash from the same company?

GLM-5.3 Max is made by Z AI and MiMo-V2.6-Flash by Xiaomi. GLM-5.3 Max was released on August 18, 2026 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash on September 21, 2026.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5.3 Max or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper on a blended basis. GLM-5.3 Max lists $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.6-Flash lists $0.14 and $0.28. For 1 million input and 200,000 output tokens that is $2.28 against $0.20.

Final whistle

MiMo-V2.6-Flash has more going for it here, but GLM-5.3 Max is not without an argument. Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash if cost matters ($0.28 against $4.40 per million output tokens) and you want the more recent release. Pick GLM-5.3 Max if you need the higher overall score (31.7 against 26.7) and long outputs need to finish quickly.

Where the numbers come from

The scores, speed and prices in this comparison come from independent third-party model evaluations that Franklin AI syncs each day, and the article was written from a snapshot of them. For the latest results, open the GLM-5.3 (Max) and MiMo-V2.6-Flash pages. The AI Benchmark methodology explains how that data is collected and shown.