MiMo-V2.6-Flash vs Mistral Large 4 Preview compared

MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads the intelligence index 26.7 to 25.3. MiMo-V2.6-Flash costs 83% less on blended price. Benchmarks, sample bills, speed and a verdict.

Metric	MiMo-V2.6-Flash	Mistral Large 4 Preview
Intelligence Index	26.7	25.3
Input price (per 1M tokens)	$0.14	$0.70
Output price (per 1M tokens)	$0.28	$2.10
Output speed (tokens/s)	36	130
Time to first token	3.5s	1.9s
Release date	2026-09-21	2026-10-06

Metric

MiMo-V2.6-Flash

Mistral Large 4 Preview

Intelligence Index

26.7

25.3

Input price (per 1M tokens)

$0.14

$0.70

Output price (per 1M tokens)

$0.28

$2.10

Output speed (tokens/s)

130

Time to first token

3.5s

1.9s

Release date

2026-09-21

2026-10-06

MiMo-V2.6-Flash and Mistral Large 4 Preview are close rivals from Xiaomi and Mistral. Price separates them more than anything else; on a blended basis Mistral Large 4 Preview costs 6 times as much as MiMo-V2.6-Flash. No hands-on testing went into this write-up; it summarises the recorded benchmark, price and speed data for both models.

Cost: MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper

MiMo-V2.6-Flash lists $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 4 Preview lists $0.70 and $2.10. That makes MiMo-V2.6-Flash's output 87% cheaper.

Take 1 million input tokens and 200,000 output tokens: that comes to $0.20 on MiMo-V2.6-Flash and $1.12 on Mistral Large 4 Preview. For a chat app with 50,000 sessions of 800 input and 300 output tokens, MiMo-V2.6-Flash would come in 84% lower: $9.80 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash against $59.50 for Mistral Large 4 Preview.

Reasoning and overall scores

MiMo-V2.6-Flash comes out ahead on the intelligence index, 26.7 to 25.3. It is a small margin for an index that averages many evaluations.

Among 109 active scored models, MiMo-V2.6-Flash sits 64th and Mistral Large 4 Preview 67th.

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

Is the price in proportion?

A blunt value measure, blended price over intelligence score, puts MiMo-V2.6-Flash at $0.0066 and Mistral Large 4 Preview at $0.042 per point. MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores higher and costs less per point, so on price per point there is nothing to trade off.

Which is newer

Mistral Large 4 Preview arrived on October 6, 2026, 15 days after MiMo-V2.6-Flash (September 21, 2026). They are effectively contemporaries.

Throughput and time to first token

MiMo-V2.6-Flash generates about 36 tokens per second and Mistral Large 4 Preview about 130 tokens per second. That makes Mistral Large 4 Preview roughly 3.6 times as fast at writing. The wait for the first token averages 3.5 seconds on MiMo-V2.6-Flash against 1.9 seconds on Mistral Large 4 Preview. Mistral Large 4 Preview gets to its first token 1.8 times as fast.

Put together, a 400-token answer would take about 15 seconds from MiMo-V2.6-Flash and 5.0 seconds from Mistral Large 4 Preview, counting the first-token wait.

Quick answers

Is MiMo-V2.6-Flash better than Mistral Large 4 Preview?

It depends on what you need: MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores higher on the intelligence index, 26.7 to 25.3; MiMo-V2.6-Flash is 83% cheaper on blended price; and Mistral Large 4 Preview streams output 3.6 times as fast.

Are MiMo-V2.6-Flash and Mistral Large 4 Preview from the same company?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is made by Xiaomi and Mistral Large 4 Preview by Mistral. MiMo-V2.6-Flash was released on September 21, 2026 and Mistral Large 4 Preview on October 6, 2026.

Which is newer, MiMo-V2.6-Flash or Mistral Large 4 Preview?

Mistral Large 4 Preview is newer. It was released on October 6, 2026, 15 days after MiMo-V2.6-Flash (September 21, 2026).

Which model has lower latency?

Mistral Large 4 Preview generates output faster, at 130 tokens per second against 36 tokens per second. Mistral Large 4 Preview reaches its first token sooner (1.9 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.

Final whistle

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the stronger all-round pick on this data, while Mistral Large 4 Preview makes sense in narrower cases. Pick Mistral Large 4 Preview if long outputs need to finish quickly and users are waiting on the first word. Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash if cost matters ($0.28 against $2.10 per million output tokens) and you need the higher overall score (26.7 against 25.3).

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 MiMo-V2.6-Flash and Mistral Large 4 Preview pages. The AI Benchmark methodology explains how that data is collected and shown.