# MiMo-V2.6-Flash — API, capabilities & pricing | Y-API

> MiMo-V2.6-Flash is Xiaomi’s efficiency-oriented multimodal entry for coding and agent workflows. OpenRouter links the Flash-RL checkpoint card, which describes reinforcement-learning work across varied task environments.

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Model ID: `xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash`

Sources reviewed: 2026-10-04. Y-API catalog snapshot: 2026-10-04.

## Choosing this model

Selection advice by Y-API. The checks below are suggested evaluations, not published test results.

### Where to start

Try it for a longer task that must retain constraints across revisions: a research summary, a code change or a visual review followed by corrections. Track which requirements survive each turn.

### What to watch for

The catalog ID and the linked Flash-RL card use different names. The card is useful technical background, not proof of a gateway’s weights. As with V2.5, listed media inputs do not establish media generation.

## Model specifications

These are OpenRouter model-level specifications, not a Y-API compatibility test. A particular route may accept fewer input formats, parameters or tokens. Verify the features you need with a small request; a successful text response does not validate vision or tool calling.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Context window | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Input | Text, Image, Video, Audio |
| Output | Text |
| Listed on OpenRouter | 2026-09-21 |
| Parameters listed by OpenRouter | `frequency_penalty`, `include_reasoning`, `logit_bias`, `logprobs`, `max_tokens`, `min_p`, `presence_penalty`, `reasoning`, `repetition_penalty`, `response_format`, `seed`, `stop`, `structured_outputs`, `temperature`, `tool_choice`, `tools`, `top_k`, `top_logprobs`, `top_p` |

## Estimate your cost

| Price basis | Input / 1M tokens | Output / 1M tokens |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Account credit | $0.18 | $0.36 |
| Cash equivalent | $0.018 | $0.036 |

$1 paid adds $10 of credit. Cash equivalent = credit consumed ÷ 10; this is not the model publisher’s list price.

Input tokens / request: 1000. Output tokens / request: 500. Number of requests: 1000.

Estimated credit consumed: $0.36. Estimated cash equivalent: $0.036.

Illustrative token budget, not measured usage or a quote. Includes input and output; excludes separate media charges, cache discounts and retries. Include billed reasoning tokens in your output budget where applicable. Actual billing follows usage returned by the service.

### Same token budget, different models

| Model | Estimated credit consumed | Estimated cash equivalent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [MiMo-V2.6-Flash](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models/xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash) | $0.36 | $0.036 |
| [MiMo-V2.5](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models/xiaomi/mimo-v2.5) | Free — no credit deducted | Free — no credit deducted |
| [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash) | $0.70 | $0.07 |

## Use the API

These minimal, text-only requests use the exact Y-API model ID. They do not demonstrate image, audio, video, file or tool support. The output limit also needs room for reasoning; an empty answer with finish_reason=length can mean the budget was exhausted.

Set the TOKEN environment variable to a key from your console. Run this on your server or locally; never expose a key in browser code or a public repository.

### A task to try

Summarize these constraints and revise the plan without dropping any: no new dependencies; keep the public API; add retry support only for idempotent requests.

```bash
curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error --max-time 120 \
  'https://api.y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/v1/chat/completions' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN:?Set TOKEN first}" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-binary @- <<'JSON'
{
  "model": "xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Summarize these constraints and revise the plan without dropping any: no new dependencies; keep the public API; add retry support only for idempotent requests."
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 4096
}
JSON
```

```python
import json
import os
import sys
import urllib.error
import urllib.request

payload = {
  "model": "xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Summarize these constraints and revise the plan without dropping any: no new dependencies; keep the public API; add retry support only for idempotent requests."
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 4096
}

request = urllib.request.Request(
    "https://api.y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/v1/chat/completions",
    data=json.dumps(payload).encode("utf-8"),
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["TOKEN"],
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    method="POST",
)
try:
    with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=120) as response:
        result = json.load(response)
    print(json.dumps(result, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2))
except urllib.error.HTTPError as error:
    print(error.read().decode("utf-8"), file=sys.stderr)
    raise SystemExit(1)
```

### How to evaluate the result

Check that all three constraints remain explicit after a follow-up change. In a coding run, inspect the dependency diff and test non-idempotent requests to catch silent scope expansion.

## Before you choose

### Is the Flash-RL model card the exact API identifier?

No. Use xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash in the request. The linked publisher card names a checkpoint; copying that repository name into the model field would select a different, unlisted identifier.

## Sources & scope

Technical facts come from the cited model page and, where available, its linked publisher card. A card describes that checkpoint; it is not proof of the weights a gateway serves. Prices come only from the Y-API catalog. We do not claim measured latency, uptime or benchmark scores for this endpoint.

- [OpenRouter model page & specifications](https://openrouter.ai/xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash)
- [Publisher model card linked by OpenRouter](https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL)
- [Y-API catalog & prices (JSON)](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models.json)

## Models to compare

Compare these alternatives on the same inputs. Their descriptions explain different roles; a lower price does not establish equivalent quality.

### [MiMo-V2.5](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models/xiaomi/mimo-v2.5)

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 is an omnimodal model whose reference entry lists text, image, audio and video inputs. Its output is text: broad perception support should not be confused with speech or image generation.

### [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash)

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash adds native image understanding to the Flash line. Its Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture separates input processing from output generation, with a design aimed at input-heavy coding and computer-use workflows.

## Links

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