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GPT-6 Sol vs MiMo-V2.6-Pro

GPT-6 Sol (max) leads MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on) by 426 Elo, and their 95% ranges sit 338 Elo apart. Even GPT-6 Sol's lowest-rated configuration, GPT-6 Sol (medium), ranks above MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on). Among 78 models, each ranked by its best configuration, GPT-6 Sol is #4 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro is #20. Cost per script: $0.126 for GPT-6 Sol (max) and $0.017 for MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on).

Last updated , from board data generated at 01:13 UTC.

GPT-6 Sol
2379 Writing Elo of GPT-6 Sol (max), its best configuration#4 of 78 models · 83.5/100 Writing Score · $0.126 per script2 configurations on the board
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
1953 Writing Elo of MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on), its best configuration#20 of 78 models · 80.2/100 Writing Score · $0.017 per script1 configuration on the board

Picks and Verdict

PickGPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol (max)

Pick GPT-6 Sol (max) when the draft is going on camera, at $0.126 and under three minutes each, with a range well clear of MiMo's.

PickMiMo-V2.6-Pro

MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on)

Pick MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on) for bulk first drafts at $0.017 a script, where it holds length better than GPT-6 Sol (medium).

About six minutes and $0.017 a script for MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on), under a minute and $0.056 for GPT-6 Sol (medium): that's the trade on this page, and the writing settles it. Sol's medium setting leads MiMo by 270 Elo with separate 95% ranges, and its biggest edges are slop and substance, more than five points each. Best against best, it's the #4 model of 78 against the #20 model, with GPT-6 Sol (max) 426 Elo ahead and a wide gap between their ranges. I get why MiMo's price matters if you generate drafts in bulk. It costs less than a third of Sol at medium, stays within half a point of it on YouTube Best Practices and holds length better, so the format holds up. On Sol, max sits 156 Elo above medium for a little over twice the price, and it still finishes in under three minutes. At $0.126 a script, that's cheap enough that I'd take it for anything I plan to record. MiMo-V2.6-Pro is a reasonable budget option, and GPT-6 Sol is where I'd spend the extra cents.

Disclosure: GPT-6 Sol comes from the same lab as one of the four judges, GPT-6.1 Sol. The other three sit outside its lab, so it is never scored by its own lab alone (how the panel works). The judge analysis measures how much each judge favors its own lab.

How to Read the Writing Score, Writing Elo and 95% Ranges

Writing Score and Writing Elo. The Writing Score (0 to 100) is the weighted average of the nine metric scores: seven from the judges, Length Adherence from code and the Slop Score half from each. The Writing Elo is a rating from pairwise comparisons: on each script, each configuration's average across its drafts is compared with every other configuration's, and gaps within the draft-to-draft variation count as draws. Elo rewards winning often, so the two can put configurations in a different order.

Elo ranges. Each 95% range shows how far a configuration's Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently. It comes from resampling every configuration's recorded draft scores on each reference script and ranking again. Comparing two separate ranges does not test the Elo gap between them: ranges far apart are strong evidence for the order, and overlapping ranges do not mean a tie. The reference scripts stay fixed, so the ranges say nothing about new scripts. The methodology page has the full description.

All Thinking Levels of Both Models

Every ranked configuration of GPT-6 Sol and MiMo-V2.6-Pro, scored on the same 10 scripts by the same four judges.

How to Read the Chart
  • Each row is one configuration: the model at one thinking level. The dot is its Writing Elo, a rating from pairwise comparisons of the scores on each script, and the bar is its 95% range: how far that Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently.
  • When two bars overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations. Bars far apart are strong evidence for the order.
  • The table under the chart lists the same configurations in the same order and adds the Writing Score (the 0 to 100 consensus of the judges and code), cost, time and configuration rank (the place among all configurations on the board).
GPT-6 SolMiMo-V2.6-Pro
ConfigurationWriting Elo95% RangeWriting ScoreCost / ScriptTime / ScriptReasoning TokensConfiguration Rank
GPT-6 Sol (max)23792335 to 242483.5$0.1262.5 minN/A#8
GPT-6 Sol (medium)22232180 to 226582.5$0.0560.8 minN/A#14
MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on)19531905 to 199780.2$0.0176.2 min10,176#39

Cost is one script at the API list price of the route used, uncached and without judging. Time is the average for one accepted script, retries included. N/A under Reasoning Tokens means the board has no separate reasoning count for that route.

Computed Findings Across Thinking Levels

Each finding is computed from the configurations above. Where two 95% ranges overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations.

Two Chosen Configurations Compared

Pick one configuration of each model to compare their metric scores, consistency across drafts and per-script scores. Each menu starts on the model's best configuration.

Scores by Metric

GPT-6 Sol (max)MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on)Solid bar: higher score in that row

GPT-6 Sol (max) scores higher on all nine metrics. Weighted by each metric's share of the Writing Score, Substance, Accuracy & Value does the most to put GPT-6 Sol (max) ahead, with a 7.0-point lead on that metric. The weight beside each metric is its share of the Writing Score.

Tone & Voice Match19% weight
80.2
78.0
Writing Craft & Clarity13% weight
80.5
77.8
Substance, Accuracy & Value15% weight
87.9
80.9
Continuity & Emotion14% weight
82.3
79.8
YouTube Best Practices12% weight
80.7
78.8
Hook Strength10% weight
83.2
79.7
Length Adherence8% weight
92.9
90.9
Slop Score5% weight
88.5
83.3
Visual Cue Quality4% weight
81.5
78.3

Consistency Across Drafts

GPT-6 Sol (max)MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on)
Score spread across drafts (±)1.271.87
Lowest script score82.0 Script 1078.0 Script 4
Highest script score85.3 Script 982.5 Script 9
Range across scripts3.34.5

Spread is how much the Writing Score moves between a configuration's drafts, and lower is steadier. Green marks the better number in each row.

Scores by Script

Writing Score on each reference script. Gap is GPT-6 Sol (max) minus MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on), and the higher score is in bold.

ScriptGPT-6 Sol (max)MiMo-V2.6-Pro (thinking on)Gap
Script 1 opinion / warning explainer83.079.3+3.7
Script 2 news-analysis / skeptical explainer83.779.9+3.8
Script 3 personal roadmap / opinion84.379.7+4.6
Script 4 short explainer83.378.0+5.3
Script 5 news-analysis / opinion explainer83.481.5+1.9
Script 6 founder announcement / personal origin story84.881.1+3.7
Script 7 personal technical walkthrough / agentic workflow case study82.780.3+2.4
Script 8 product release announcement / personal observation82.880.7+2.1
Script 9 career guide / hiring analysis85.382.5+2.8
Script 10 engineering process walkthrough / presentation adaptation82.079.4+2.6

Compare With Another Model

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Nearby Match-Ups by Best Writing Elo

Every configuration wrote five drafts for each of the same 10 briefs, from the same prompt. Generation was closed-book, with the prompt as the only source and no web search or other tools. Each judge scores every draft once: Claude Opus 5.5 at medium effort through the Claude Code subscription, GPT-6.1 Sol at medium reasoning through the Codex CLI, GLM 5.3 Flash through OpenRouter, and Jev 1.13, a typed judge from TypeSafe that answers each metric as a multiple-choice question. The channel's finished script is their reference for the voice, and it gets no score on the board itself.

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