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MiMo-V2.6-Pro sits at #30 of 167 on ToneBench, in the middle of the pack, with a writing Elo of 2180 and an overall score of 88.1 out of 100. We measured it by having it write all 10 of our real YouTube scripts, five times each, then scoring every draft blind against our own finished versions. Here is how it shook out.
Within Other it ranks 2nd of 9. MiMo-V2.6-Pro UltraSpeed is the family's top writer here, about 17 Elo ahead, so this config trades some quality for whatever it saves you in cost or speed.
Among proprietary models, it comes in 26th of 114. That ranking is against the stronger half of the board: closed models still set the pace on voice fidelity here.
What it does best is Tone & Voice: it ranks 20th on that dimension at 88.6, well above the board average. Its softer spot is Length Discipline (84.6, 58th), which is the thing to watch if that metric matters most for your use.
It was uneven across the 10 scripts. Its best run was the personal technical walkthrough / agentic workflow case study (90.6) and its weakest was the personal roadmap / opinion (86.2), a spread of about 4 points. Worth knowing if your writing skews toward one of those formats.
On cost, it runs about $0.011/task. GLM-5.3 Flash scores higher for less money, at $0.007/task, so on pure value this config is not the frontier. Still, it beats 87 models that cost noticeably more.
The shape is the story: the further a corner reaches, the stronger that dimension. Biggest edge over the board: Length Discipline (+13.8); smallest edge: Hook (+6.7).
Nine writing dimensions, each scored 0–100 and blended by the editorial weight shown. Rank is against all 167 current-ranked models. The thick bar is this model; the thin lines above and below are the current field's best model (darker) and average (lighter) on the same scale. The small ± number is its run-to-run variation.
The same 10 real scripts every current-ranked model writes, scored individually. Different formats stress different skills.
Every cell on this page is the mean of 5 independent runs per script; the ± numbers are the run-to-run standard deviation. Overall, MiMo-V2.6-Pro varies by ± 1.7 points between runs versus a board median of ± 2.7, so it is noticeably steadier than the typical model here.
| Metric | This model | Board median | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tone & Voice ? | 88.6 ± 1.2 | ± 1.7 | typical |
| Writing Craft ? | 89.2 ± 1.0 | ± 1.5 | typical |
| Substance & Value ? | 87.9 ± 1.7 | ± 2.0 | typical |
| Flow & Emotion ? | 87.7 ± 1.4 | ± 1.8 | typical |
| YouTube Structure ? | 88.2 ± 2.0 | ± 2.9 | typical |
| Hook ? | 88.3 ± 1.6 | ± 2.0 | typical |
| Length Discipline ? | 84.6 ± 9.1 | ± 8.6 | typical |
| Anti-Slop ? | 91.8 ± 1.6 | ± 2.1 | typical |
| Visual Cues ? | 85.3 ± 2.9 | ± 3.2 | typical |
Numbers we log on every run and rarely talk about. None of these affect the writing scores; cost and latency are informational.
The published overall of 88.1 is the consensus of three family-disjoint judges scoring the same 50 stored drafts blind with the identical rubric. The highest and lowest judge differ by 3.3 points on its overall. The three judges essentially agree on this model. How the panel works: methodology.
xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-pro (provider default reasoning)On ToneBench it ranks #30 of 167 with a writing Elo of 2180 and an overall score of 88.1/100. That score comes from writing our 10 real YouTube scripts five times each and scoring every draft blind against our own finished versions across nine writing dimensions.
Not quite. Within Other it ranks 2nd of 9; MiMo-V2.6-Pro UltraSpeed is the family's best writer here.
It costs about $0.011/task. GLM-5.3 Flash scores higher for less, so it is not the value pick.
Its strongest dimension is Tone & Voice (20th on the board, 88.6). Its weakest is Length Discipline (58th on the board, 84.6). The full nine-metric breakdown is on this page.
Yes. Its best of our 10 scripts was the personal technical walkthrough / agentic workflow case study (90.6) and its weakest was the personal roadmap / opinion (86.2).
We run every script 5 times. MiMo-V2.6-Pro's overall score varies by about ±1.7 points between runs, versus a board median of ±2.7. That makes it one of the steadier models we test. The full per-metric variability table is on this page.
Via OpenRouter using the exact model/route id xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-pro, run on 2026-09-25. 5 runs per script, provider-default sampling, no fine-tuning; every draft scored blind with a fixed rubric by a three-family judge panel. Full details in the 'How we ran it' section and the methodology.
No, it is a proprietary (closed-weights) model. Among proprietary models it ranks 26th of 114 for writing.