Y-API vs Xiaomi MiMo
Xiaomi MiMo is the vendor that builds the model itself, so this is not two labs competing — it is one question. For the one model both of us sell, does going through Y-API cost less? Both columns below are cash per 1M input tokens, and Xiaomi MiMo’s side is the cheapest tier we could find on its own price list, which makes every multiple a floor rather than a headline.
| Dimension | Y-API | Xiaomi MiMo |
|---|---|---|
| API protocol | Y-APIOpenAI Chat Completions. Point base_url at https://api.y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/v1, swap the key, leave the rest of your code alone. | Xiaomi MiMoAn OpenAI-compatible endpoint of its own, on a different base URL and with different model strings — see the row for each model below. |
| Models on one key | Y-API10 model IDs from 6 vendors, one balance, one key. | Xiaomi MiMoIts own published catalog. The one model we resell from it is priced on that page. |
| xiaomi/mimo-v2.5 — input / 1M tokens | Y-API$0.007 in cash | Xiaomi MiMo$0.14 as mimo-v2.5 — 20× ours (a cheaper cache-hit tier also exists) |
| What a top-up converts to | Y-APILimited time: $1 becomes $20 of account credit, then credit is deducted at each model’s own rate. Reverts to 1:10 afterwards. | Xiaomi MiMoYou pay the list price in cash. There is no credit multiplier, and nothing to expire. |
| Cache-hit pricing | Y-APINo cache discount. A repeated prompt is billed exactly like a new one. | Xiaomi MiMoA discounted rate for cached input, below our cash price on the only model compared here — see “Where Xiaomi MiMo costs less”. |
Against us
Where Xiaomi MiMo costs less
A comparison that only runs one way is an advertisement. Everything below comes from the same price list as the figures above.
xiaomi/mimo-v2.5: cache hits
Xiaomi MiMo bills cached input at $0.0028 per 1M tokens. Our cash price is $0.007 with no cache tier at all, so on a workload where most of the prompt repeats, Xiaomi MiMo is the cheaper of the two on this model.
We have no cache discount at all
Every request is billed at the full rate whether or not the prompt is identical to the last one. Long fixed system prompts and repeated document context are exactly where that hurts.
Most of the gap is the top-up rate, not the model price
Our catalog rates, read as credit, sit close to what Xiaomi MiMo charges in cash. Almost the whole gap above comes from $1 converting to $20 of credit. At 1:10 the same comparison becomes 10× on xiaomi/mimo-v2.5.
Xiaomi MiMo builds the model
New versions, quota increases and behaviour changes land there first, and its own API may expose parameters we do not pass through. We are one hop further from the model than they are, and that hop is ours to explain when something breaks.
Fit
Which one to call
Call it through Y-API if
- Your input is mostly fresh, where the gap is 20× on xiaomi/mimo-v2.5 at the current top-up rate.
- You want one balance and one key across 10 models from 6 vendors instead of an account per vendor.
- Your prompts change every call, so Xiaomi MiMo’s cache discount would not apply to you anyway.
Go to Xiaomi MiMo if
- Your workload is cache-heavy: its cached-input rate is below our cash price on the only model compared here.
- You need the newest build the day it ships, or a parameter that only the vendor’s own API exposes.
- You want a price that does not depend on a promotion. Ours is $1 → $20 of credit today and 1:10 afterwards; theirs is cash at list price either way.
- You want the billing relationship, the SLA and the support to be with Xiaomi MiMo rather than with a reseller.
FAQ
Questions people ask before switching
- Is Y-API cheaper than Xiaomi MiMo?
- On fresh input, yes: xiaomi/mimo-v2.5 runs $0.007 against their $0.14. Two things bound that. Their side is always the cheapest tier they publish, so each multiple is a floor rather than a peak; and the gap depends on the limited-time 1:20 top-up rate, which roughly halves it when it reverts to 1:10.
- Why is it cheaper — are you buying below their price?
- No, and the honest answer matters here. Our catalog rates, read as credit, sit close to Xiaomi MiMo’s cash list prices. Almost the whole gap is the top-up conversion: $1 buys $20 of credit while the promotion runs. Treat it as a promotional rate with an announced revert to 1:10, not as a structural discount.
- Which models does Xiaomi MiMo price against ours?
- It prices 1 of our 10, with the name each one carries there: xiaomi/mimo-v2.5 (mimo-v2.5 there). Those are the only rows in the table above — a row with a published price on one side only is not a comparison.
- How much of my code has to change?
- base_url, the key, and the model string. Both sides speak OpenAI Chat Completions, so nothing else in the request body changes — ours are prefixed, for example xiaomi/mimo-v2.5.
Provenance
Sources
Every Xiaomi MiMo figure on this page was read from the page below on 2026-08-31, at the cheapest tier it publishes. Our own figures are on our pricing and terms pages.
Point one call at it
Change base_url, the key, and the model string on a single call you already make. The request log will tell you what it costs before you move anything else.