Vertex claude-3-5-sonnet vs Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash (free)

Description

Anthropic's previous most intelligent model. High level of intelligence and capability. Excells in coding.

Strengths

• •Multimodal understanding with text and image support
• •Large context window (200k tokens)
• •Strong coding performance

Best For

Software development and debugging

Description

MiMo-V2-Flash is an open-source foundation language model developed by Xiaomi. It is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 309B total parameters and 15B active parameters, adopting hybrid attention architecture. MiMo-V2-Flash supports a hybrid-thinking toggle and a 256K context window, and excels at reasoning, coding, and agent scenarios. On SWE-bench Verified and SWE-bench Multilingual, MiMo-V2-Flash ranks as the top #1 open-source model globally, delivering performance comparable to Claude Sonnet 4.5 while costing only about 3.5% as much. Users can control the reasoning behaviour with the `reasoning` `enabled` boolean. [Learn more in our docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#enable-reasoning-with-default-config).

Strengths

• •Large context window (262k tokens)

Best For

General conversations and content creation