Model Comparison
MiMo-V2.6-Flash vs Claude Sonnet 5
MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) leads Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort) by 128 Elo, and their 95% ranges sit 25 Elo apart. Among 78 models, each ranked by its best configuration, MiMo-V2.6-Flash is #18 and Claude Sonnet 5 is #23. Cost per script: $0.0057 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) and $0.696 for Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort).
Last updated , from board data generated at 01:13 UTC.
Picks and Verdict
PickMiMo-V2.6-Flash
MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on)
Pick MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) for first drafts at $0.0057 a script, with the stronger hook and the higher Writing Elo.
PickClaude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort)
Pick Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort) when the script has to land on its target length, since it scores 96.6 there for $0.696 a script.
Both Claude Sonnet 5 settings rank below MiMo-V2.6-Flash's only one, and both cost many times more. The board ranks each model by its best setting, which makes MiMo-V2.6-Flash the #18 model of 78 and Claude Sonnet 5 the #23 model. Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort) sits 128 Elo below MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) with separate 95% ranges, which is strong evidence for that order. Sonnet at max effort costs $0.696 a script, about 122 times MiMo's $0.0057, and takes twelve minutes against three and a half. Sonnet gets a lot from thinking: 207 Elo from high to max effort, at close to six times the cost, and it still finishes behind. The hook is MiMo's widest lead, more than seven points, and MiMo is ahead on tone as well. Sonnet has one clear strength: at max effort it hits the requested length nine points better, and continuity is level. Its drafts are less steady than MiMo's at both settings. For a first draft I'd start with MiMo and fix the length by hand.
Disclosure: Claude Sonnet 5 comes from the same lab as one of the four judges, Claude Opus 5.5. 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 MiMo-V2.6-Flash and Claude Sonnet 5, scored on the same 10 scripts by the same four judges.
- 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).
Shaded rows are the configurations chosen for the metric comparison below.
| Configuration | Writing Elo | 95% Range | Writing Score | Cost / Script | Time / Script | Reasoning Tokens | Configuration Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) | 1987 | 1929 to 2034 | 80.4 | $0.0057 | 3.5 min | 11,025 | #35 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort) | 1859 | 1812 to 1904 | 79.2 | $0.696 | 12.0 min | N/A | #45 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 (high) | 1652 | 1602 to 1703 | 76.6 | $0.121 | 1.9 min | N/A | #58 |
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.
- Best Configurations Head to Head. MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) leads Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort) by 128 Elo, and their 95% ranges do not overlap (1929 to 2034 against 1812 to 1904), which is strong evidence for that order.
- Every MiMo-V2.6-Flash Configuration Ranks Higher. MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on), the only MiMo-V2.6-Flash configuration on the board, ranks above both Claude Sonnet 5 configurations, including Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort) at Elo 1859.
- Lowest to Highest Thinking Level. Claude Sonnet 5 moves +207 Elo from high to max effort, at about 5.8 times the cost per script.
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
MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) scores higher on seven of the nine metrics and Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort) on two. Weighted by each metric's share of the Writing Score, Hook Strength does the most to put MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) ahead, with a 7.2-point lead on that metric. The weight beside each metric is its share of the Writing Score.
Consistency Across Drafts
| MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) | Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort) | |
|---|---|---|
| Score spread across drafts (±) | 1.86 | 2.39 |
| Lowest script score | 78.9 Script 1 | 75.7 Script 4 |
| Highest script score | 81.9 Script 5 | 81.5 Script 9 |
| Range across scripts | 3.0 | 5.8 |
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 MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) minus Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort), and the higher score is in bold.
| Script | MiMo-V2.6-Flash (thinking on) | Claude Sonnet 5 (max effort) | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Script 1 opinion / warning explainer | 78.9 | 77.4 | +1.5 |
| Script 2 news-analysis / skeptical explainer | 80.3 | 78.9 | +1.4 |
| Script 3 personal roadmap / opinion | 79.4 | 78.1 | +1.3 |
| Script 4 short explainer | 79.4 | 75.7 | +3.7 |
| Script 5 news-analysis / opinion explainer | 81.9 | 80.9 | +1.0 |
| Script 6 founder announcement / personal origin story | 81.4 | 81.1 | +0.3 |
| Script 7 personal technical walkthrough / agentic workflow case study | 79.9 | 81.2 | -1.3 |
| Script 8 product release announcement / personal observation | 81.4 | 79.3 | +2.1 |
| Script 9 career guide / hiring analysis | 81.9 | 81.5 | +0.4 |
| Script 10 engineering process walkthrough / presentation adaptation | 79.7 | 78.0 | +1.7 |
Scorecards and Thinking Pages
Each configuration name in the table above opens its own scorecard.
Compare With Another Model
Pick a second model. A pair with its own written match-up opens that page, and any other pair opens in the comparison tool.
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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