gpt-oss-120b vs XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B
Practical read: gpt-oss-120b costs about an eighth as much and reads four times more context. One API key runs both.
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Side by side:
| Attribute | gpt-oss-120b | XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Price, 1M in + out | $0.21 Weights & Biases, cheapest route | $1.64 Featherless AI, cheapest route |
| Best for | Low cost and long documents | |
| Input / output, 1M | $0.032 / $0.18 | $0.45 / $1.18 |
| Cached input | $0.015825/1M to $0.1055/1M | Not published |
| Context window | 131K 131,072 tokens | 33K 32,768 tokens |
| First token, p50 | 0.48 s via Cerebras | Measuring |
| AI IQ | IQ 98 #136 on AI IQ | Unrated |
| Provider routes | 24 with failover | 1 |
| Privacy | Confidential E2EE and zero retention route | Zero retention route |
| Recent route uptime range | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Publisher | OpenAI | Xiaomi MiMo |
| Modes | chat | chat |
| More detail |
Price adds one million input and one million output tokens on the cheapest route. Prices and speed change: see the monthly reports and run a small eval before you choose a default.
Test both with your agent
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Compare gpt-oss-120b and XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B in this project through TrustedRouter.
1. Read https://trustedrouter.com/docs/llms.txt
2. Point the OpenAI-compatible client at
https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1 and read the key from
TRUSTEDROUTER_API_KEY.
3. Run our eval prompts on openai/gpt-oss-120b, then on xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-distill-qwen-9b.
4. Show me cost, latency and quality side by side before changing the default.
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1",
api_key=os.environ["TRUSTEDROUTER_API_KEY"],
)
for model in ("openai/gpt-oss-120b", "xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-distill-qwen-9b"):
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=model,
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}],
)
print(model, response.choices[0].message.content)
for model in openai/gpt-oss-120b xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-distill-qwen-9b; do
curl https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TRUSTEDROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d "{\"model\": \"$model\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"What is the capital of France?\"}]}"
done
Questions
Which should I use, OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b or XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B?
gpt-oss-120b has the lower published input-plus-output rate, more Credits provider routes and the larger context window. There is not enough recent probe data to compare speed.
Is OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b or XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B cheaper?
The current cheapest TrustedRouter route is $0.211/1M for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b and $1.636516/1M for XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B. The comparison uses current catalog prices and updates as provider pricing changes.
Is OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b or XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B faster?
Current measured p50 time to first token is 482 ms for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b and not enough data for XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B. These are routed probe measurements, not vendor-advertised speeds, and update as new samples arrive.
Can I test OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b and XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B with the same API?
Yes. Use the same OpenAI-compatible TrustedRouter base URL and API key, then change only the model id between openai/gpt-oss-120b and xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-distill-qwen-9b. This makes side-by-side evals possible without maintaining two provider integrations.
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Try gpt-oss-120b and XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B with one key.
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