GLM-5.3 (Low) vs MiMo-V2.5

Which is better for the money: GLM-5.3 (Low) by Z AI or MiMo-V2.5 by Xiaomi? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

Z AIGLM-5.3 (Low)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 34.30
Total cost: $1013

XiaomiMiMo-V2.5On the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 21.80
Total cost: $61.9

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GLM-5.3 (Low) scores 12.5 points higher (34.3 vs 21.8) but costs 16× as much to run the benchmark ($1013 vs $61.9; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick GLM-5.3 (Low) when you need intelligence above 21.8, and MiMo-V2.5 when 21.8 is enough.

Metric	GLM-5.3 (Low)	MiMo-V2.5	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	34.3	21.8	−36.4% MiMo-V2.5 is 36.4% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,012.50	$61.93	−93.9% MiMo-V2.5 is 93.9% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	31.07s	53.92s	+73.5% MiMo-V2.5 is 73.5% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.40 / $4.40	$0.13 / $0.27
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MiMo-V2.5 vs GLM-5.3 (Low): 36.4% less intelligence, 93.9% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 73.5% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GLM-5.3 (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
MiMo-V2.5 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) scores 34.50 for $56.4.

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