What is the best cheap AI model?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro by Xiaomi is the best cheap & good pick right now, and MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the best open option.

Winner

MiMo-V2.6-ProOPEN

SIscope score: 88 · $0.54 blended per 1M tokens

Best open

MiMo-V2.6-FlashOPEN

SIscope score: 80 · $0.17 blended per 1M tokens

Runner-up

GPT-5.6 LunaxHigh

SIscope score: 81 · $0.45 blended per 1M tokens

Top 10 for cheap & good

SIscope score, 0 to 100 (percentile).

1MiMo-V2.6-ProOPEN88 2GPT-5.6 LunaxHigh81 3MiMo-V2.6-FlashOPEN80 4GLM-5.3 FlashOPEN79 5GLM-5.3MaxOPEN79 6Kimi K2.5ThinkingOPEN75 7MiMo-V2.5OPEN72 8Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructOPEN71 9Qwen3.8-27BOPEN71 10GLM-4.5OPEN71

Based on SIscope score, limited to models with a public list price of $1 or less per 1M tokens (3 input : 1 output) on OpenRouter. Bars start at 50. 75 models have data for this task.

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