API cost decision in 10 seconds

Qianfan-OCR-Fast vs MiMo-V2-Flash

Pick MiMo-V2-Flash when budget and context both matter.

Page updated:  Data confirmed:  Prices normalized to USD per 1M tokens Sample workload: 1M input + 500K output

Budget verdict

Pick MiMo-V2-Flash when budget and context both matter.

On the standard 1M input plus 500K output workload, MiMo-V2-Flash is estimated at $0.25 vs $2.08 for Qianfan-OCR-Fast, saving $1.83 (88% lower).

Cost-first pickMiMo-V2-Flash
Context-first pickMiMo-V2-Flash
Sample savings$1.8388%
10x traffic gap$18.35

MiMo-V2-Flash is cheaper on the standard workload and also has the larger context window. At 10x that traffic, the same price gap is about $18.35. Use the calculator below to replace the sample workload with your own token volume.

Cost sensitivity

Workload Sensitivity

Same prices, different token mixes.

MiMo-V2-Flash stays cheaper across input-heavy, balanced, and output-heavy sample workloads.

Workload shapeToken mixBetter pickQianfan-OCR-FastMiMo-V2-Flash
Input-heavy / RAG5M input + 500K outputMiMo-V2-Flash$4.81$0.65
Balanced workload1M input + 1M outputMiMo-V2-Flash$3.49$0.4
Output-heavy chatbot1M input + 5M outputMiMo-V2-Flash$14.73$1.6
Cheaper input MiMo-V2-Flash $0.68 vs $0.1 / 1M

MiMo-V2-Flash is $0.58 cheaper per 1M input tokens (85.3% lower; 6.8x difference).

Cheaper output MiMo-V2-Flash $2.81 vs $0.3 / 1M

MiMo-V2-Flash is $2.51 cheaper per 1M output tokens (89.3% lower; 9.37x difference).

Larger context MiMo-V2-Flash 65.54K vs 262.14K

MiMo-V2-Flash has 196.61K more context (4x larger).

Sample workload MiMo-V2-Flash $2.08 vs $0.25

MiMo-V2-Flash is $1.83 cheaper on the standard workload (88% lower).

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Your Workload Cost

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This estimate uses normalized public API pricing per 1M tokens. It is a planning aid, not a billing quote. Verify provider pricing, limits, and terms before production use.

Quick Decision

Verdict

MiMo-V2-Flash has the lower input price; MiMo-V2-Flash has the lower output price; MiMo-V2-Flash offers the larger context window. For the 1M input plus 500K output sample, MiMo-V2-Flash is cheaper for the standard workload.

For a 1M input token plus 500K output token workload, the estimated API cost is $2.08 for Qianfan-OCR-Fast and $0.25 for MiMo-V2-Flash.

Best Fit

Choose Qianfan-OCR-Fast when its provider, model quality, latency, or availability is more important than the numeric price/context winner.

Choose MiMo-V2-Flash when you care most about lower input-token price, lower output-token price, and larger context window.

Decision Notes
  • On the standard 1M input plus 500K output workload, MiMo-V2-Flash is estimated at $0.25 vs $2.08 for Qianfan-OCR-Fast, saving $1.83 (88% lower).
  • MiMo-V2-Flash is $1.83 cheaper on the standard workload (88% lower).
  • MiMo-V2-Flash is $0.58 cheaper per 1M input tokens (85.3% lower; 6.8x difference).
  • MiMo-V2-Flash is $2.51 cheaper per 1M output tokens (89.3% lower; 9.37x difference).
  • MiMo-V2-Flash has 196.61K more context (4x larger).
Head-to-Head Specs
FeatureQianfan-OCR-Fast
(Baidu)		MiMo-V2-Flash
(Xiaomi)
Input Price
prompt tokens per 1M		$0.68$0.1
Completion Price
per 1M tokens		$2.81$0.3
Sample Workload Cost
1M input + 500K output		$2.08$0.25
Context Window65.54K262.14K
Release Date

Use-Case Decision Matrix

Use caseBetter pickWhy
Budget-constrained productionMiMo-V2-FlashOn the standard 1M input plus 500K output workload, MiMo-V2-Flash is estimated at $0.25 vs $2.08 for Qianfan-OCR-Fast, saving $1.83 (88% lower).
High-volume input processingMiMo-V2-FlashLower prompt-token price matters most when prompts, retrieved passages, or documents dominate the bill.
Long responses and chatbotsMiMo-V2-FlashLower output-token price matters most when assistants generate many completion tokens.
RAG or long-document workMiMo-V2-FlashA larger context window leaves more room for retrieved passages, conversation history, or source files.

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Qianfan-OCR-Fast

Qianfan-OCR-Fast is a domain-specific multimodal large model purpose-built for OCR. By leveraging specialized OCR training data while preserving versatile multimodal intelligence, it provides a powerful performance upgrade over Qianfan-OCR.

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MiMo-V2-Flash is an open-source foundation language model developed by Xiaomi. It is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 309B total parameters and 15B active parameters, adopting hybrid attention architecture. MiMo-V2-Flash supports a...