Xiaomi MiMo V2 Pro Review: FREE AI Model That Rivals Claude Opus?

Xiaomi's MiMo V2 Pro is free on Kilo Code right now and is the most popular model on OpenRouter, but its 'near Opus' positioning is built on synthetic benchmarks.

The Model

Xiaomi — China's #2 phone maker and a car manufacturer — has revealed the previously stealth Healer at Hunter Alpha release as MiMo V2 Pro. The Pro variant ships a 1,000,000 token context window. A lighter sibling, MiMo V2 Light, is what Boxmining is already running a live agent on after moving it off Claude Sonnet.

Pricing And Free Access

• Free right now on Kilo Code (kilo.ai) and as MiMo V2 Pro Free inside Kilo's chat product.
• Post-promotion price is roughly $1 per 1M input tokens.
• Also reachable via OpenRouter and Xiaomi's own site.

The 'Opus Rival' Claim

Xiaomi is marketing against Anthropic's flagship: "close to state-of-the-art Opus." The hosts flag the pattern — "everyone compares to Opus" — and note Chinese models "rock" synthetic tests but are "great test takers." They have not seen independent agent benchmarks yet. Their own real-world test will land in about a week.

Where It Actually Wins

The hosts believe Xiaomi is genuinely aimed at agentic workflows, integrated into their own MiMo Claw OpenClaw fork and Kingsoft Office (the Xiaomi founder's former company). Ron's day-one impression of V2 Light running his agent: "genuinely curious how the performance will be." Across X, Chinese and Japanese users are calling it "almost good enough" at Opus-level tasks.

The Bigger Race

The hosts frame Xiaomi as a late entrant with massive capital — Sora was reportedly burning $10–15M/day and got cut to fund Codex GPT. They expect Chinese labs (MiniMax, Kimi, Xiaomi) to keep training on Opus outputs, but want to see a genuine leap, not another catch-up. They are watching DeepSeek's recent paper drop as a signal for its next release.