The quick answer: open https://playground.aihubmix.com/?model=mimo-v2.6-pro in your browser, type a question, press send. No installing, no coding, and free trial calls without entering a card.
Key points
- The model is
mimo-v2.6-pro, made by Xiaomi, released 22 September 2026 - You can use it in a browser for free before deciding anything
- It reads text, images, video and audio
- It costs $0.48 per million input tokens, $0.96 per million output — a fraction of a cent for a typical question
- The older
mimo-v2.5-proretires 21 October 2026, so start on v2.6
Words you'll need
Model ID — the model's exact name in software: mimo-v2.6-pro. Spelling counts.
Token — how models count text, roughly a short word. Prices are per million tokens.
Context window — how much text the model can consider at once. This one holds 1,048,576 tokens.
API key — a secret string identifying your account when software talks to the service.
What the model can do
| Model ID | mimo-v2.6-pro |
| Reads | Text, images, video, audio |
| Writes | Text |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Price | $0.48/M input · $0.96/M output |
| Thinks before answering | Yes, on by default |
Is it better than the previous version?
Yes — and it costs exactly the same.
mimo-v2.5-pro | mimo-v2.6-pro | |
|---|---|---|
| What you can send | Text only | Text, images, video, audio |
| Price per million (in / out) | $0.48 / $0.96 | $0.48 / $0.96 |
| Available? | Retires 21 October 2026 | Yes |
The practical difference: the old version could only read text. The new one can look at a screenshot or listen to a recording, for the same money.
How to try it in your browser
1. Open the Playground
The Playground is a chat page where you can use any model without installing anything. This link opens it with the model already chosen:
https://playground.aihubmix.com/?model=mimo-v2.6-pro
2. Sign in and get a key
Create an account and an API key at https://console.aihubmix.com/. Free trial calls need no card.
3. Ask it something real
Not "hello". Paste in a document you needed summarised this week, or a screenshot of something that isn't working.
4. Press Get Code when you're ready
When a prompt is working the way you want, Get Code hands you a script in your choice of language, generated from the exact request the Playground just sent.
How to use it from code
Install:
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install openai
Save your key into your terminal so it isn't sitting in a file:
export AIHUBMIX_API_KEY="paste-your-key-here"
The script:
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AIHUBMIX_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://aihubmix.com/v1",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mimo-v2.6-pro",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
max_completion_tokens=1024,
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
A complete program. It uses OpenAI's official library even though the model is Xiaomi's, because AIHubMix accepts requests in OpenAI's format — so the only line that differs from any OpenAI tutorial is base_url.
How to try it for free
xiaomi-mimo-v2.6-pro-free is a free version accepting the same text, image, audio and video input. Use that ID instead. Ten trial calls across all free models, no credit card, no expiry.
What is it good for?
- Reading very long things — whole codebases, contracts, transcripts
- Questions about a picture, recording or clip, sent in the same message
- Jobs with many steps that have to run to the end
- Turning messy text into clean data you can feed into a spreadsheet
Why use AIHubMix
- One account for many companies' models — switching means changing one word
- No subscription. You pay for what you use
- A free tier for evaluating before you spend anything
- A browser Playground so you can use the model before learning any code
Checklist
- [ ] Opened
https://playground.aihubmix.com/?model=mimo-v2.6-pro - [ ] Created an account and API key at
https://console.aihubmix.com/ - [ ] Asked it one question from your actual work
- [ ] Tried sending it an image or a long document
- [ ] Pressed Get Code if you want to automate it
- [ ] Checked nothing you've written points at
mimo-v2.5-pro
FAQ
Do I need to know how to code? No. The Playground is a chat page in your browser. Code is optional.
What exactly is the model ID? mimo-v2.6-pro. The free version is xiaomi-mimo-v2.6-pro-free.
Do I need a credit card? No. Free models give you 10 trial calls with no card, and they don't expire.
How much will a normal question cost? Input is $0.48 per million tokens. A typical question and answer is a few hundred tokens, so a fraction of a cent.
Can I send it a photo or a voice recording? Yes — images, video and audio all go in the same message as your question. This is the main thing the previous version couldn't do.
My answer got cut off halfway. Your length limit was too low. Raise max_completion_tokens — the model's thinking counts against that budget too.
How long can I keep using mimo-v2.5-pro? Until 21 October 2026. After that it returns an error and you should use mimo-v2.6-pro.
Next step
Open https://playground.aihubmix.com/?model=mimo-v2.6-pro and ask it one thing you genuinely needed answered this week.
