Xiaomi API ranks among the top in LLM cost-performance
Previously posted criticism that mimo-2.5-pro’s performance couldn’t justify its pricing. Its performance really can’t be compared to gpt5.x and opus4.x. It’s not that I wanted to compare them, but Xiaomi positioned them as competitors, so I pointed out the obvious gap. But now Xiaomi has shifted to benchmarking against deepseek, and I think it might still put up a fight. Selling LLMs…
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Previously posted criticism that mimo-2.5-pro’s performance couldn’t justify its pricing. Its performance really can’t be compared to gpt5.x and opus4.x. It’s not that I wanted to compare them, but Xiaomi positioned them as competitors, so I pointed out the obvious gap. But now Xiaomi has shifted to benchmarking against deepseek, and I think it might still put up a fight. Selling LLMs should never be priced based on cost. If you’re ahead, you can earn excess profits; if you’re behind, you must sell at a loss to get users to adopt you, then gather some high-quality data for training. Besides, OpenAI is still losing money, while Xiaomi hasn’t even started losing yet.
