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Granite 4.2 vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash
2 of 5Open-Weight Models · verified 29 Sept 2026
Granite 4.2IBMcurrentXMiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomicurrent
| Specification | Granite 4.2 | MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | 3B, 8B and 30B under Apache 2.0, with a switch that turns the reasoning off. | The small one, and still multimodal. |
| Context | 131K, 512K extension claimed | 1M |
| Input ($/Mtok) | Weights only | Weights only |
| Output ($/Mtok) | Weights only | Weights only |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | MIT |
| Max output | 32K | Not published |
| Parameters | 3B, 8B and 30B dense | 309B total, 15B active |
| Released | 25 Aug 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Model ID | ibm-granite/granite-4.2 | XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Flash |
| Category | Open-Weight Models | Open-Weight Models |
| Official | — | Xiaomi ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Granite 4.2
- Three sizes, 3B, 8B and 30B, all dense and all Apache 2.0
- A thinking switch, so one checkpoint either reasons step by step or answers directly
- 30B scores 57.0 on SWE-bench Verified and 81.38 on RULER at 128K; the 8B scores 47.67
Best for enterprise on your own hardware.
MiMo-V2.6-Flash
- 309B total parameters, 15B active per token
- Same 1M context and five layer speculative decoder as Pro
- MIT licence, weights on Hugging Face
Best for multimodal work on your own cluster.