Inkling 2 Small vs MiMo-V2.6-Pro: which is faster?

If you only looked at the intelligence index, Inkling 2 Small and MiMo-V2.6-Pro would be hard to tell apart. No hands-on testing went into this write-up; it summarises the recorded benchmark, price and speed data for both models. Throughput is the standout difference: 139 tokens per second for Inkling 2 Small against 41 tokens per second for MiMo-V2.6-Pro.

Throughput and time to first token

Measured output speed is 139 tokens per second for Inkling 2 Small and 41 tokens per second for MiMo-V2.6-Pro. On long outputs, that is a real advantage for Inkling 2 Small. Before any text appears, Inkling 2 Small takes 2.2 seconds and MiMo-V2.6-Pro 3.0 seconds. Inkling 2 Small gets to its first token 1.4 times as fast.

Put together, a 600-token answer would take about 6.6 seconds from Inkling 2 Small and 18 seconds from MiMo-V2.6-Pro, counting the first-token wait.

What they cost

Per million tokens, Inkling 2 Small charges $0.30 for input and $1.00 for output, while MiMo-V2.6-Pro charges $0.435 and $0.87. The rates cross over. Inkling 2 Small is cheaper to feed and MiMo-V2.6-Pro is cheaper to hear back from.

A reference job of 1 million input tokens and 200,000 output tokens costs $0.50 with Inkling 2 Small and $0.61 with MiMo-V2.6-Pro, so Inkling 2 Small saves $0.11. A bigger example, an agent that reads 50 million tokens and writes 5 million in a month, costs $20.00 on Inkling 2 Small and $26.10 on MiMo-V2.6-Pro: a gap of $6.10. Blended at three input tokens per output token, the effective rates are $0.475 for Inkling 2 Small and $0.544 for MiMo-V2.6-Pro.

Inkling 2 Small leads on the intelligence index

Inkling 2 Small comes out ahead on the intelligence index, 30.6 to 29.9. On an aggregate like this, under a point is effectively level.

For context, that places Inkling 2 Small 52nd and MiMo-V2.6-Pro 55th out of 109 scored models still on offer.

Neither model has a separate coding or math index recorded yet, so those narrower comparisons will have to wait for more data.

Which is newer

Inkling 2 Small arrived on November 5, 2026, about a month after MiMo-V2.6-Pro (September 21, 2026). They are effectively contemporaries.

Is the price in proportion?

Per point of intelligence index, Inkling 2 Small costs $0.016 of blended price per million tokens and MiMo-V2.6-Pro $0.018. Inkling 2 Small scores higher and costs less per point, so on price per point there is nothing to trade off.