Xiaomi MiMo vs DeepSeek

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Xiaomi MiMo Xiaomi's open MIT-licensed model family — near-frontier at low cost Visit DeepSeek China's frontier open-weight LLM lab — now shipping the V4 family at a... Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7 / 10 8.2 / 10
Capability 9
Value for money 10
Ease of use 7
ASEAN readiness 5
API quality 8
Pricing Open Source Open Source
Free tier Free — open-weight download (MIT license), self-host Free access at chat.deepseek.com; open weights self-hostable
Paid from V4-Flash $0.14/$0.28; V4-Pro $0.435/$0.87 per 1M tokens (now permanent, not promo)
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users ~130M monthly active users (late 2025)
Founded 2010 2023
Maker Xiaomi Corporation High-Flyer
Verdict

Xiaomi turned out to be a serious open-model player, not a phone-maker dabbling. The MIT license is the headline: commercial use, fine-tuning and derivative weights with no revenue caps. On capability the split matters —...

DeepSeek is the Chinese lab whose open-weight models repeatedly shock the market by matching far costlier frontier systems at a fraction of the price. The 2026 V4 family (V4-Pro and the cheaper V4-Flash, both 1M-context)...

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