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AI labs compared · October 2026

xAI 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. 8 models in all; a lab is only as good as the model you would actually pick from it.

4 models on sale with our resultsxAI Best: Grok 4.7 · newest: Grok 4.7
4 models on sale with our resultsXiaomi Best: MiMo-V2.6-Pro · newest: MiMo-V2.6-Pro
xAI wins 1Xiaomi wins 3

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.

xAI or Xiaomi? The short answer

Xiaomi is ahead: its best models beat xAI's in 3 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on; xAI leads in 1.

  • Pick xAI for agents and tool use.
  • Pick Xiaomi for reasoning and knowledge, writing and sticking to the facts.
  • xAI's Grok 4.7 is #14 on our overall leaderboard; no Xiaomi model has enough of our results to be ranked there yet.
  • Prices start at $1.56 per million tokens for xAI (Grok 4.3) and $0.18 for Xiaomi (MiMo-V2.6-Flash).

Head to head

46.4Grok 4.7
Best Intelligence Index
46.3MiMo-V2.6-Pro
$3.00Grok 4.7
Flagship price, per million tokens
$0.54MiMo-V2.6-Pro
$1.56Grok 4.3
Cheapest model, per million tokens
$0.18MiMo-V2.6-Flash
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Models on sale with our results
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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 4 of 20Grok 4.7 not measured
Decks from an analysisTurning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is 9 of 19Grok 4.7 not measured
Marketing planningPlanning a year of ad spend without overspending 11 of 19Grok 4.7 not measured
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 10 of 164Grok 4.6 15 of 164MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Professional workReal tasks from banking, consulting and law, business documents and freelance projects 16 of 51Grok 4.6 not measured
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 13 of 198Grok 4.6 10 of 198MiMo-V2.6-Pro
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 40 of 188Grok 4.5 20 of 188MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 43 of 152Grok 4.5 8 of 152MiMo-V2.6-Pro

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.

xAIXiaomi

20304050 $0.1$1$10 Price per million tokens, blended (log scale) Intelligence Index Grok 4.7Grok 4.6Grok 4.5MiMo-V2.6-ProMiMo-V2.6-FlashMiMo-V2.5-Pro

On our overall leaderboard

The 1 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. #14Grok 4.743

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.

MeasurexAIXiaomi
Agents and tool use
Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks, higher is better 25.8%Grok 4.7 · 19 of 10534.8%MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 13 of 105
Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better 88.4%Grok 4.6 · 6 of 11565.2%MiMo-V2.5-Pro · 37 of 115
Artificial Analysis · τ-bench banking% of tasks, higher is better 50.7%Grok 4.6 · 1 of 1139.9%MiMo-V2.5-Pro · 72 of 113
Reasoning and knowledge
Artificial Analysis · Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 46.4Grok 4.7 · 11 of 19846.3MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 12 of 198
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 44.1%Grok 4.6 · 21 of 19749.4%MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 9 of 197
Artificial Analysis · GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 94.9%Grok 4.6 · 3 of 18786.6%MiMo-V2.5-Pro · 62 of 187
Sticking to the facts
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 1,465Grok 4.5 · 28 of 1131,483MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 8 of 113
Writing
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 1,466Grok 4.5 · 33 of 1661,480MiMo-V2.6-Pro · 20 of 166
UGI Leaderboard · Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 63.3Grok 4.6 · 29 of 13857.4MiMo-V2.5-Pro · 40 of 138

Quick answers

Is xAI or Xiaomi better?

Xiaomi is ahead: its best models beat xAI's in 3 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on; xAI leads in 1.

What is xAI's best model?

Grok 4.7: #14 on the Spring Prompt overall leaderboard and 46.4 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, xAI or Xiaomi?

xAI: its best model there, Grok 4.6, ranks 10 of 164 models on sale, against 15 for Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro.

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

Xiaomi: its best model there, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, ranks 10 of 198 models on sale, against 13 for xAI's Grok 4.6.

Which is better for writing, xAI or Xiaomi?

Xiaomi: its best model there, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, ranks 20 of 188 models on sale, against 40 for xAI's Grok 4.5.

Which is cheaper, xAI or Xiaomi?

Xiaomi's cheapest model with results, MiMo-V2.6-Flash, costs $0.18 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $1.56 for Grok 4.3 from xAI.

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