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AI labs compared · October 2026

Google vs Xiaomi: which AI lab is ahead?

Each lab's best model on sale goes head to head on every kind of work we measure, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. 20 models in all; a lab is only as good as the model you would actually pick from it.

16 models on sale with our resultsGoogle Best: Gemini 3.8 Flash · newest: Gemini 3.8 Flash
4 models on sale with our resultsXiaomi Best: MiMo-V2.6-Pro · newest: MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Google wins 2Xiaomi wins 2

Kinds of work led by each lab's best model there, of the 4 both are measured on.

Results as of 8 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-08-4199ce0620fe). Models on sale means listed on OpenRouter today.

Google or Xiaomi? The short answer

Google and Xiaomi are level: each lab's best model leads in 2 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on.

  • Pick Google for writing and sticking to the facts.
  • Pick Xiaomi for agents and tool use and reasoning and knowledge.
  • Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash is #8 on our overall leaderboard; no Xiaomi model has enough of our results to be ranked there yet.
  • Prices start at $0.062 per million tokens for Google (Gemma 3 4B) and $0.18 for Xiaomi (MiMo-V2.6-Flash).

Head to head

40.9Gemini 3.8 Flash
Best Intelligence Index
46.3MiMo-V2.6-Pro
$3.00Gemini 3.8 Flash
Flagship price, per million tokens
$0.54MiMo-V2.6-Pro
$0.062Gemma 3 4B
Cheapest model, per million tokens
$0.18MiMo-V2.6-Flash
16
Models on sale with our results
4

Each line names the model behind the number. Prices are blended, three input tokens to one output, at the developer's list price where we have read it; see every model's price. Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis; overall score from our leaderboard.

Which lab is better for what

For each kind of work, each lab's best model there and its rank among every model on sale. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Product listingsTurning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live 8 of 20Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview not measured
Decks from an analysisTurning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is 12 of 19Gemini 3.8 Flash not measured
User surveysPlanning a user survey and reading its results without being misled 5 of 8Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview not measured
Marketing planningPlanning a year of ad spend without overspending 7 of 19Gemini 3.8 Flash not measured
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 29 of 164Gemini 3.7 Flash 15 of 164MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Professional workReal tasks from banking, consulting and law, business documents and freelance projects 11 of 51Gemini 3.8 Flash not measured
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 12 of 198Gemini 3.8 Flash 10 of 198MiMo-V2.6-Pro
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 2 of 188Gemini 3.8 Flash 20 of 188MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 1 of 152Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 8 of 152MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Speed under pressureGood decisions against a real clock (fast chess) 2 of 22Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite not measured

Every model, by intelligence and price

Each dot is a model on sale with an Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis. Up is smarter; left is cheaper. Hover or tap a dot for its name.

GoogleXiaomi

01020304050 $0.01$0.1$1$10 Price per million tokens, blended (log scale) Intelligence Index Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3.7 FlashGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3.5 FlashMiMo-V2.6-ProMiMo-V2.6-Flash

On our overall leaderboard

The 3 of their models we rank overall: one score out of 100 across everything we publish (how the score works). Only models with enough of our own results are ranked.

  1. #8Gemini 3.8 Flash61
  2. #10Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview50
  3. #19Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite27

Benchmark by benchmark

The headline result of every benchmark both labs have models on: each lab's best model and its rank among the models on sale. Green marks the better rank.

MeasureGoogleXiaomi
Agents and tool use
Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks, higher is better 19.7%Gemini 3.8 Flash · 23 of 10534.8%MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 13 of 105
Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better 87.6%Gemini 3.8 Flash · 8 of 11565.2%MiMo-V2.5-Pro · 37 of 115
Artificial Analysis · τ-bench banking% of tasks, higher is better 45.8%Gemini 3.8 Flash · 10 of 1139.9%MiMo-V2.5-Pro · 72 of 113
Reasoning and knowledge
Artificial Analysis · Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 40.9Gemini 3.8 Flash · 21 of 19846.3MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 12 of 198
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 47.9%Gemini 3.7 Flash · 12 of 19749.4%MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 9 of 197
Artificial Analysis · GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 95.3%Gemini 3.8 Flash · 2 of 18786.6%MiMo-V2.5-Pro · 62 of 187
Sticking to the facts
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 1,477Gemini 3.7 Flash · 12 of 1131,483MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 8 of 113
Writing
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 1,495Gemini 3.8 Flash · 6 of 1661,480MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 20 of 166
UGI Leaderboard · Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 78.6Gemini 3.8 Flash · 1 of 13857.4MiMo-V2.5-Pro · 40 of 138

Quick answers

Is Google or Xiaomi better?

Google and Xiaomi are level: each lab's best model leads in 2 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on.

What is Google's best model?

Gemini 3.8 Flash: #8 on the Spring Prompt overall leaderboard and 40.9 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

What is Xiaomi's best model?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 46.3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Google or Xiaomi?

Xiaomi: its best model there, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, ranks 15 of 164 models on sale, against 29 for Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Google or Xiaomi?

Xiaomi: its best model there, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, ranks 10 of 198 models on sale, against 12 for Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash.

Which is better for writing, Google or Xiaomi?

Google: its best model there, Gemini 3.8 Flash, ranks 2 of 188 models on sale, against 20 for Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro.

Which is cheaper, Google or Xiaomi?

Google's cheapest model with results, Gemma 3 4B, costs $0.062 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $0.18 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash from Xiaomi.

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