Xiaomi's MIT-Licensed MiMo-V2.6-Pro Hits OpenRouter at $0.87/M Output Tokens
VraserX · x · 2026-09-26
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro has released MIT-licensed weights and is listed on OpenRouter at just $0.87 per million output tokens.
The author argues it doesn't need to win every benchmark: being good enough for the actual job makes expensive frontier models harder to justify, and asks for concrete examples of tasks that truly earn a frontier-model premium.
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