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I routed two weeks of coding to a model 25x cheaper than Opus. The model wasn't the slow part.

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For two weeks, Claude planned and reviewed my code changes and Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro wrote them. That was 95 work orders across 14 of my repos, and 62 of them merged. At list prices, MiMo's side of those 62 changes cost $14.22. The same tokens at Claude Opus 5.5 prices come to $355. The catch is t…

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  1. 2026-10-25 00:22 · DEV Community — AI
    I routed two weeks of coding to a model 25x cheaper than Opus. The model wasn't the slow part.

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